3.0.0 3023 2023-01-14T22:48:29Z 2023-01-14T22:48:29Z Senate S S 2004-11-20 108 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2004-11-20T19:55:41Z 2004-11-20 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. IntroReferral 2004-11-20 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress D000388 Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] CHRISTOPHER DODD D CT JOHN N Commerce Administrative fees Administrative procedure Advertising Business records Cemeteries and funerals Civil actions and liability Congress Congressional reporting requirements Consumer complaints Consumer education Consumer protection Contracts Damages Deceptive advertising Department of Health and Human Services Economics and Public Finance Employee training Evidence (Law) Executive reorganization Federal Trade Commission Federal officials Federal preemption Finance and Financial Sector Fraud Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Governmental investigations Grants-in-aid Independent regulatory commissions Interest Intergovernmental fiscal relations Labor and Employment Law Licenses Local laws Recruiting of employees Restrictive trade practices Sales promotion Standards State employees State laws Surveys Commerce 00 2004-11-20 Introduced in Senate 2004-12-09T14:56:10Z Requires the Coordinator to: (1) award Federal assistance grants to State agencies that regulate death care providers; and (2) establish minimum standards and requirements governing State regulation of funeral homes and other death care providers.

Sets forth deceptive trade practices, including funeral provider practices that: (1) fail to make timely price disclosures regarding funeral goods and services; (2) fail to give an itemized written statement for retention to a purchaser of funeral goods or funeral services at the conclusion of the discussion related to such goods and services and prior to providing any services beyond taking possession of a deceased human body for authorized embalming; (3) make specified misrepresentations; (4) condition goods and services upon the purchase of other goods and services; and (5) provide embalming services without prior approval.

Prohibits unsolicited telephone offers or door-to-door direct offers to sell funeral goods, services, crematory services, interment rights, or other cemetery and memorialization goods and services.

Sets forth consumer protections with respect to certain cash advance prohibitions and requirements, and preneed and prepaid funeral service transactions.]]>

Federal Death Care Inspection and Disclosure Act Display Title Federal Death Care Inspection and Disclosure Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to improve funeral home, cemetery, and crematory inspection systems, to establish consumer protections relating to funeral service contracts, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Federal Death Care Inspection and Disclosure Act Introduced in Senate 2004-11-20T05:00:00Z 2004-11-20 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.