BILL REQ. #:  H-1087.1 

Read first time 01/31/11.   Referred to Committee on Business & Financial Services.

     AN ACT Relating to embalmers; and amending RCW 68.50.070.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 68.50.070 and 1959 c 23 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) Any sheriff, coroner, keeper or superintendent of a county poorhouse, public hospital, county jail, or state institution shall surrender the dead bodies of persons required to be buried at the public expense, to:
     (a) Any physician or surgeon, to be used by him ((used)) or her for the advancement of anatomical science, preference being given to medical schools in this state, for their use in the instruction of medical students; or
     (b) An accredited educational institution offering funeral services and embalming programs for use in training embalming students under the supervision of an embalmer licensed under chapter 18.39 RCW.
     (2) If the deceased person during his last sickness requested to be buried, or if within thirty days after his death some person claiming to be a relative or a responsible officer of a church organization with which the deceased at the time of his death was affiliated requires the body to be buried, his body shall be buried.