Legislative Updates

Late yesterday, the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee announced the Burial Rights for America’s Veteran Efforts (BRAVE) Act (H.R. 497/S. 597)...

Two Tennessee legislators have introduced a bill that would remove licensing requirements for people in 27 occupations, including funeral directors...

When a family chooses to donate a loved one’s body for education or research, they do so with the hope...

The Burial Rights for America’s Veterans’ Efforts Act of 2019 has been introduced in the United States Senate and House...

Following the FBI raid and closure of Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in Colorado for alleged illegal practices in body brokering,...

Texas approved new rules this week requiring health care facilities that perform abortions to bury the fetal remains instead of...

Despite intense outcry from the medical community and reproductive rights advocates, Texas isn't budging on a proposed rule to require...

Texas intends to require aborted fetuses to be buried or cremated come September, adding new abortion regulations after the U.S....

Though the new measure applies only to New York City and still needs the governor’s signature to become law, its...

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed landmark legislation last October that would allow terminally ill people to request life-ending medication from...