Senate Amendment 1
H 4116 - Session 125 (2023-2024)
Funeral contracts

Senator Davis proposes the following amendment (LC-4116.WAB0025S):

Amend the bill, as and if amended, by striking SECTION 13 and inserting:

SECTION 13. Section 40-19-110(9) of the S.C. Code is amended to read:

(9) refusing to properly release a dead human body to the custody of the person or entity who that has the legal right to effect accomplish a release. The release must include payment for the actual services provided by the initial funeral home as transferor of the dead human body over to the receiving transferee. The receiving transferee funeral home is responsible for the payment to the transferring funeral home at the time of the transfer of the dead human body;