Bill Text: IL HB5787 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing Code. Authorizes the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to properly inspect funeral homes and investigate complaints under the Code. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-03-20 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB5787 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5787-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5787 Introduced , by Rep. Charles Meier SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
225 ILCS 41/1-30
Amends the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing Code. Authorizes the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to properly inspect funeral homes and investigate complaints under the Code. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing
Code is amended by changing Section 1-30 as follows:
(225 ILCS 41/1-30)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)
Sec. 1-30. Powers of the Department. Subject to the
provisions of this Code, the Department may exercise the
following powers:
(1) To authorize examinations to ascertain the
qualifications and fitness of applicants for licensing as
a licensed funeral director and embalmer and pass upon the
qualifications of applicants for licensure.
(2) To examine the records of a licensed funeral
director or licensed funeral director and embalmer from
any year or any other aspect of funeral directing and
embalming as the Department deems appropriate.
(3) To investigate any and all funeral directing and
embalming activity.
(4) To conduct hearings on proceedings to refuse to
issue or renew licenses or to revoke, suspend, place on
probation, reprimand, or otherwise discipline a license

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under this Code or take other non-disciplinary action.
(5) To adopt all necessary and reasonable rules and
regulations for the effective administration of this Code.
(6) To prescribe forms to be issued for the
administration and enforcement of this Code.
(7) To properly inspect funeral homes and investigate
complaints under this Code. (Blank).
(8) To contract with third parties for services
necessary for the proper administration of this Code
including, without limitation, investigators with the
proper knowledge, training, and skills to properly inspect
funeral homes and investigate complaints under this Code.
(Source: P.A. 102-881, eff. 1-1-23.)