A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROhibit the taking or recovery of human tissue at a funeral establishment by any person, with certain exceptions.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 90‑210.25 is amended by adding the following new subsection to read:
"(e1)	The taking or recovery of human tissue at a funeral establishment by any person is prohibited, except that this prohibition does not apply to:
(1)	A licensee under this Article that performs embalming or otherwise prepares a dead human body in the ordinary course of business, and
(2)	The Chief Medical Examiner or anyone acting under the Chief Medical Examiner's authority.
No funeral establishment or person licensed under this Article shall permit the taking or recovery of human tissue from a dead human body in its custody or control for human transplantation purposes or for research purposes. No funeral establishment or any of its licensees, agents, or employees shall accept, solicit, or offer to accept any payment, gratuity, commission, or compensation of any kind for referring potential tissue donors to a tissue bank or tissue broker or to an eye bank or eye broker. For purposes of this subsection, the term "tissue" includes an eye."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to deaths occurring on and after that date.