CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

HOUSE BILL 1069

Chapter 16, Laws of 2011

62nd Legislature
2011 Regular Session



UNCLAIMED REMAINS--DISPOSITION



EFFECTIVE DATE: 07/22/11

Passed by the House February 25, 2011
  Yeas 97   Nays 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate March 29, 2011
  Yeas 47   Nays 0


BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
 
CERTIFICATE

I, Barbara Baker, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1069 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.


BARBARA BAKER
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Chief Clerk
Approved April 11, 2011, 2:18 p.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
April 11, 2011







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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HOUSE BILL 1069
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Passed Legislature - 2011 Regular Session
State of Washington62nd Legislature2011 Regular Session

By Representatives Alexander and Moeller

Prefiled 01/06/11. Read first time 01/10/11.   Referred to Committee on Local Govt.



     AN ACT Relating to the disposition of unclaimed remains; and amending RCW 36.24.155.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1   RCW 36.24.155 and 2009 c 549 s 4038 are each amended to read as follows:
     Whenever anyone shall die within a county without making prior plans for the disposition of his or her body and there is no other person willing to provide for the disposition of the body, the county coroner shall cause such body to be entrusted to a funeral home in the county where the body is found. Except in counties where the county coroner or medical examiner has established a preferred funeral home using a qualified bidding process, disposition shall be on a rotation basis, which shall treat equally all funeral homes or mortuaries desiring to participate, such rotation to be established by the coroner after consultation with representatives of the funeral homes or mortuaries in the county or counties involved.


         Passed by the House February 25, 2011.
         Passed by the Senate March 29, 2011.
         Approved by the Governor April 11, 2011.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 11, 2011.