104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB2244 Introduced 2/7/2025, by Sen. Lakesia Collins SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 225 ILCS 41/15-33 new Amends the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing Code. Adds exceptions to unlicensed practice. Provides that a license is not required under the Code for an organ procurement organization or its authorized representative to transport a deceased human body if the organ procurement organization meets certain requirements. Provides that any organ procurement organization or its authorized representative that transports a deceased human body under the provisions concerning exceptions to unlicensed practice shall employ or contract with a funeral director licensed in this State to supervise and train its authorized representative prior to transporting the deceased human body and must comply with all other applicable rules, regulations, and laws. Provides that the provisions concerning exceptions to unlicensed practice shall not apply to a non-transplant anatomical donation organization. LRB104 09416 AAS 19475 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB2244 Introduced 2/7/2025, by Sen. Lakesia Collins SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 225 ILCS 41/15-33 new 225 ILCS 41/15-33 new Amends the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing Code. Adds exceptions to unlicensed practice. Provides that a license is not required under the Code for an organ procurement organization or its authorized representative to transport a deceased human body if the organ procurement organization meets certain requirements. Provides that any organ procurement organization or its authorized representative that transports a deceased human body under the provisions concerning exceptions to unlicensed practice shall employ or contract with a funeral director licensed in this State to supervise and train its authorized representative prior to transporting the deceased human body and must comply with all other applicable rules, regulations, and laws. Provides that the provisions concerning exceptions to unlicensed practice shall not apply to a non-transplant anatomical donation organization. LRB104 09416 AAS 19475 b LRB104 09416 AAS 19475 b A BILL FOR
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB2244 Introduced 2/7/2025, by Sen. Lakesia Collins SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
225 ILCS 41/15-33 new 225 ILCS 41/15-33 new
225 ILCS 41/15-33 new
Amends the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing Code. Adds exceptions to unlicensed practice. Provides that a license is not required under the Code for an organ procurement organization or its authorized representative to transport a deceased human body if the organ procurement organization meets certain requirements. Provides that any organ procurement organization or its authorized representative that transports a deceased human body under the provisions concerning exceptions to unlicensed practice shall employ or contract with a funeral director licensed in this State to supervise and train its authorized representative prior to transporting the deceased human body and must comply with all other applicable rules, regulations, and laws. Provides that the provisions concerning exceptions to unlicensed practice shall not apply to a non-transplant anatomical donation organization.
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1 AN ACT concerning regulation.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing
5 Code is amended by adding Section 15-33 as follows:
6 (225 ILCS 41/15-33 new)
7 Sec. 15-33. Exceptions to unlicensed practice.
8 (a) A license is not required under this Code for an organ
9 procurement organization or its authorized representative to
10 transport a deceased human body if the organ procurement
11 organization is:
12 (1) certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
13 Services;
14 (2) transporting the deceased human body for the
15 purposes of organ or tissue donation;
16 (3) transporting the deceased human body within the
17 viable time frame for organ or tissue donation; and
18 (4) under the supervision of a licensed funeral
19 director.
20 (b) Any organ procurement organization or its authorized
21 representative that transports a deceased human body under
22 this Section shall employ or contract with a funeral director
23 licensed in this State to supervise and train its authorized
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 SB2244 Introduced 2/7/2025, by Sen. Lakesia Collins SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
225 ILCS 41/15-33 new 225 ILCS 41/15-33 new
225 ILCS 41/15-33 new
Amends the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing Code. Adds exceptions to unlicensed practice. Provides that a license is not required under the Code for an organ procurement organization or its authorized representative to transport a deceased human body if the organ procurement organization meets certain requirements. Provides that any organ procurement organization or its authorized representative that transports a deceased human body under the provisions concerning exceptions to unlicensed practice shall employ or contract with a funeral director licensed in this State to supervise and train its authorized representative prior to transporting the deceased human body and must comply with all other applicable rules, regulations, and laws. Provides that the provisions concerning exceptions to unlicensed practice shall not apply to a non-transplant anatomical donation organization.
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