BILL REQ. #:  H-0077.1 

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.