republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2025-26/sb-241.md

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Bill	Funeral Directors; organic human reduction as a means of disposing of deceased human bodies; provide	A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 18 of Title 43 of the O.C.G.A., relating to funeral directors and establishments, embalmers, and crematories, so as to provide for the organic human reduction as a means of disposing of deceased human bodies; to amend Titles 10, 31, and 36 of the O.C.G.A., relating to commerce and trade, health, and local government, respectively, so as to require a disposition permit for the organic human reduction of a dead human body or fetus; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.	us/states/ga	Georgia General Assembly	2025_26	SB 241	Georgia SB 241 (2025_26)	bill	COMMERCE AND TRADE HEALTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES	enacted	Derek Mallow Elena Parent Lee Anderson Randy Robertson Rick Williams	3	15	2	2025-02-21	2025-07-01	openstates	ocd-bill/b55493b8-a582-4b24-8c7d-125d08203766	http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl	570c893ef9d5d4a71bfcf0e92af54b0e96c7e122930cd631d90d5613b13fc2dc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ga

Georgia SB 241 (2025_26) — Funeral Directors; organic human reduction as a means of disposing of deceased human bodies; provide

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 18 of Title 43 of the O.C.G.A., relating to funeral directors and establishments, embalmers, and crematories, so as to provide for the organic human reduction as a means of disposing of deceased human bodies; to amend Titles 10, 31, and 36 of the O.C.G.A., relating to commerce and trade, health, and local government, respectively, so as to require a disposition permit for the organic human reduction of a dead human body or fetus; to provide for related matters; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. As Passed Senate (committee substitute) — source
2. As introduced LC 55 0530 (committee substitute) — source
3. SB 241/AP* (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Vote #150 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 52–1 (pass) · upper
• House Vote #372 - 2025-2026 Regular Session — 157–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Derek Mallow — primary (person)
• Elena Parent — primary (person)
• Lee Anderson — primary (person)
• Randy Robertson — primary (person)
• Rick Williams — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2025-02-21 Senate Hopper introduction
• 2025-02-24 Senate Read and Referred referral-committee
• 2025-02-28 Senate Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-03 Senate Read Second Time reading-2
• 2025-03-04 Senate Third Read reading-3
• 2025-03-04 Senate Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-03-06 House First Readers reading-1
• 2025-03-10 House Second Readers reading-2
• 2025-03-20 House Committee Favorably Reported committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-31 House Third Readers reading-3
• 2025-03-31 House Passed/Adopted passage
• 2025-04-07 Senate Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-09 Senate Date Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-09 Act 82 executive-signature
• 2025-07-01 Effective Date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b55493b8-a582-4b24-8c7d-125d08203766. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).