PRINTER'S NO. 743
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 722
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY DALEY, RABB, MAJOR, SANCHEZ, KENYATTA, RIVERA,
CEPEDA-FREYTIZ, KHAN, OTTEN, HADDOCK, JAMES, MALAGARI AND
CERRATO, FEBRUARY 25, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, FEBRUARY 25, 2025
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 1 (General Provisions) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, in rules of construction, further
3 providing for definitions.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1991 of Title 1 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a definition to read:
8 § 1991. Definitions.
9 The following words and phrases, when used in any statute
10 finally enacted on or after September 1, 1937, unless the
11 context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the meanings
12 given to them in this section:
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14 "Cremation." The technical process, using mechanical or
15 thermal process, including alkaline hydrolysis, that reduces
16 human remains to bone fragments. The term includes the
17 processing and pulverization of bone fragments and the placement
18 of the processed remains in a cremated remains container.
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2 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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