GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	1 

SENATE BILL 12

Short Title:  Humane Disposal of Remains.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Harris; and Chalk.
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Referred to:  Human Resources.
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January 13, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REQUIRE THAT THE REMAINS OF TERMINATED PREGNANCIES BE DISPOSED OF IN A HUMANE MANNER LIMITED TO BURIAL, CREMATION, OR HOSPITAL APPROVED TYPE OF INCINERATION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The Department of Human Resources shall adopt rules to ensure that all facilities authorized to terminate pregnancies and laboratories to which the remains of terminated pregnancies are sent by facilities authorized to terminate pregnancies shall dispose of the remains in a humane manner, limited to burial, cremation, or hospital approved type of incineration.  Rules adopted pursuant to this section shall provide that the obligation to dispose of the remains of terminated pregnancies by a facility authorized to terminate pregnancies ceases as to any remains of terminated pregnancies that the facility has sent to a laboratory for diagnostic evaluation.
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.