HSB 633 (LSB 6063YC (1) 84)

HOUSE FILE _____

BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL BY CHAIRPERSON WAGNER)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the issuance of a burial transit permit.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 144.32, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   If a person other than a funeral director, medical examiner, or emergency medical service assumes custody of a dead body or fetus, the person shall secure a burial transit permit. To be valid, the burial transit permit must be issued by the county medical examiner,
 
or a funeral director, or the county registrar of the county where the certificate of death or fetal death was filed. The permit shall be obtained prior to the removal of the body or fetus from the place of death and the permit shall accompany the body or fetus to the place of final disposition.
EXPLANATION
   This bill relates to the issuance of a burial transit permit. A burial transit permit is required when a person other than a funeral director, medical examiner, or emergency medical service assumes custody of a dead body or fetus. The bill removes the county registrar of the county where the certificate of death or fetal death was filed from the list of persons allowed to issue a burial transit permit.