Archived Bill Info

"SHAFFER"

An act amending section two of the act approved the fourteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred fifteen (Pamphlet Laws five hundred and six), entitle "An act amending the act entitled €˜An act for the promotion of medical science by the distribution and use of unclaimed human bodies for scientific purposes through a board created for that purpose and to prevent unauthorized uses and traffic in human bodies' approved June thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three by providing that the name of said board of distribution shall be Anatomical Board of the State of Pennsylvania by extending its provisions to all persons having charge or control over bodies required to be buried at the public expense by requiring immediate notice of the death of any person required to be buried at the public expense by requiring notice in all cases but providing that there shall not be delivered to the board created under the act the bodies of decreased indigent persons where claimed by relatives within twenty-four hours after death for interment at the expense of the claimant of the bodies of honorably discharged soldiers, sailors or marines who have served the United States in any war or who were in active service in the militia of the State of Pennsylvania under and in pursuance of any of the proclamations issued by the Governor during the Civil War and not duly mustered into the service of the United States by repealing the provisions as to deceased indigent travelers by providing for the burial at the expense of the county of indigent persons unfit for anatomical purposes upon the certificate of the board or its duly authorized officer or agent that such bodies are unfit for anatomical purposes or are the bodies of soldiers, sailors or marines required to be buried at the public expense and that the provisions of this act have been complied with by providing that no warrants for payment of expenses of burial shall be drawn or paid except upon such certificate by providing for the burial of bodies rendered unfit for anatomical purposes by the failure to comply with the provisions of this act at the expense of the person failing to comply with its provisions."

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Referred to the Committee on Public Health and Sanitation, February 26.

Reported as committed, March 18.

Passed first reading, March 19.

Passed second reading, March 24.

Passed third reading with amendments, March 25.

Passed finally, March 31. (196-0)

In the Senate No. 703

Referred to the Committee on Public Health and Sanitation, April 1.

Reported as committed, April 22.

Passed first reading, April 22.

Passed second reading, April 23.

Passed third reading and final passage, April 28. (46-0)

Approved by the Governor, May 8.

Act No. 103.