Legislative Updates

There have been four separate, but equally egregious and/or perplexing, cases of funeral directors or owners accused of abandoning or...

Last week, the executive director of the Maryland Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors, who has only served in the...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final Risk Evaluation of formaldehyde under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

The U.S. Senate passed “The Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act” (S. 141), a comprehensive omnibus...

With the 119th Congress beginning its two-year session in early-January, the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) is calling on members...

Today FTC Staff issued a report on the Commission’s undercover Funeral Rule phone sweep it conducted in 2023.

The National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA), a longstanding advocate for improving veterans’ funeral and burial benefits, strongly supported this legislation. 

chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is worried those same bereaved families may become targets of price manipulation thanks...

Adjusted for inflation, that $255 should be around $2,900 — and that’s exactly the amount some senators hope to begin...

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed House Bill 4116 into law, updating, changing, or introducing regulations throughout virtually every aspect...