BILL NUMBER: AB 2946	CHAPTERED  09/28/08

	CHAPTER  504
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 28, 2008
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 28, 2008
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 14, 2008
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 7, 2008
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 17, 2008
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 25, 2008

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hayashi

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2008

   An act to amend Sections 9765 and 9786 of the Business and
Professions Code, relating to cemeteries, and making an appropriation
therefor.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2946, Hayashi. Cemeteries.
    Existing law, the Cemetery Act, requires every cemetery authority
and crematory licensee to pay an annual regulatory charge for each
cemetery in an amount determined by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau
and, until December 31, 2007, an additional quarterly charge of not
more than $8.50 for each burial, entombment, inurnment, or cremation,
as specified. Existing law directs the deposit of these charges in
the Cemetery Fund, a continuously appropriated fund.
   This bill would reestablish these additional quarterly charges.
Because these additional moneys would be deposited into a
continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation.

   Appropriation: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 9765 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   9765.  Every cemetery authority operating a cemetery shall pay an
annual regulatory charge for each cemetery to be fixed by the bureau
at not more than four hundred dollars ($400). In addition to an
annual regulatory charge for each cemetery, an additional quarterly
charge to be fixed by the bureau at not more than eight dollars and
fifty cents ($8.50) for each burial, entombment, or inurnment made
during the preceding quarter shall be paid to the bureau and these
charges shall be deposited in the Cemetery Fund. If the cemetery
authority performs a burial, entombment, or inurnment, and the
cremation was performed at a crematory located on the grounds of the
cemetery and under common ownership with the cemetery authority, the
total of all additional charges shall be not more than eight dollars
and fifty cents ($8.50).
  SEC. 2.  Section 9786 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   9786.  Every crematory licensee operating a crematory pursuant to
a license issued in compliance with this article shall pay an annual
regulatory charge for each crematory, to be fixed by the bureau at
not more than four hundred dollars ($400). In addition to an annual
regulatory charge for each crematory, every licensee operating a
crematory pursuant to a license issued pursuant to this article shall
pay an additional charge to be fixed by the bureau at not more than
eight dollars and fifty cents ($8.50) per cremation made during the
preceding quarter, which charges shall be deposited in the Cemetery
Fund.