| Passed by the House February 25, 2011 Yeas 97 FRANK CHOPP ________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 29, 2011 Yeas 47 BRAD OWEN ________________________________________ President of the Senate | 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 ________________________________________ Chief Clerk | |
| Approved April 11, 2011, 2:18 p.m. CHRISTINE GREGOIRE ________________________________________ Governor of the State of Washington | April 11, 2011 Secretary of State State of Washington |
| State of Washington | 62nd Legislature | 2011 Regular Session |
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.