BILL NUMBER: AB 2004	CHAPTERED  09/15/04

	CHAPTER  531
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 15, 2004
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 15, 2004
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 26, 2004
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 25, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 19, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 8, 2004
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 14, 2004

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Business and Professions (Correa
(Chair), Shirley Horton (Vice Chair), Aghazarian, Bermudez, Koretz,
Leno, Maldonado, Maze, Nation, Vargas, Wyland, and Yee)

                        FEBRUARY 13, 2004

   An act to amend Section 7632 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to funeral directors and embalmers.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2004, Committee on Business and Professions.  Funeral directors
and embalmers.
   The Funeral Directors and Embalmers Law provides for the
regulation of funeral directors, embalmers, and apprentice embalmers
by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau in the Department of Consumer
Affairs. Existing law requires a funeral director to cause all human
remains embalmed in or at the direction of his or her establishment
to be embalmed by a licensed embalmer or by an apprentice embalmer.
   This bill would also authorize a student in a program accredited
by the American Board of Funeral Service Education to embalm human
remains under the supervision of a licensed embalmer.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 7632 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   7632.  A funeral director shall cause all human remains embalmed
in or at the direction of his or her funeral establishment to be
embalmed by a licensed embalmer, by an apprentice embalmer under the
supervision of his or her licensed supervising embalmer, or by a
student in a program accredited by the American Board of Funeral
Service Education under the supervision of a licensed embalmer.