SB 551 — An Act amending Title 1 (General Provisions) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in rules of construction, further providing for definitions.

PRINTER'S NO.   544

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                        SENATE BILL
                        No. 551
                                               Session of
                                                 2025

     INTRODUCED BY DUSH AND J. WARD, APRIL 4, 2025

     REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, APRIL 4, 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:
13      * * *
14      "Cremation."    The technical process, using mechanical,
15   thermal or other dissolution process, including alkaline
16   hydrolysis, that reduces human remains to bone fragments. The
17   term includes the processing and pulverization of bone fragments
18   and the placement of the processed remains in a cremated remains
19   container.
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2     Section 2.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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