SB 26-105

Senate Bill 26-105 requires certain county officers like coroners and recorders to disclose any financial interests they have in businesses related to death care services, such as funeral homes or crematories. They must post this information on their official website within a month of taking office or acquiring the interest. The law also mandates that these officials cannot take part in decisions that directly affect their own business interests. Additionally, coroners are required to report annually how many times they referred remains to death-care providers without revealing personal details about the deceased or their families. Since the bill has been signed, it is now a law and must be followed by those affected.

Official Summary

The bill requires coroners clerks and recorders, and assessors (county officers) to file post on their official website written disclosures of their financial interest in specified businesses regulated by their respective offices office, including a mortuary, funeral home, crematory, embalming service, or other death-care business within 30 days of taking office or 30 days of acquiring the financial interest, whichever is later. The filing is a public record. A county officer coroner who has disclosed a financial interest may not participate in an official action that would directly and specifically affect that business in which the county officer coroner has a financial interest.      The bill also requires coroners to annually disclose, on an aggregate basis, the number of referrals of remains made by the corner to any mortuary, funeral home, crematory, or other death-care provider. No personal identifying information related to the decedent or the decedent's family may be disclosed.(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

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