Bill > LB555

This bill amends the Funeral Directing and Embalming Practice Act to establish a new professional role of assistant funeral director in Nebraska. The bill defines an assistant funeral director as a person who assists a licensed funeral director and sets forth specific requirements for their practice. To become an assistant funeral director, an individual must pass a jurisprudence examination in Nebraska law and be employed by a licensed funeral director under a signed collaborative agreement. The bill outlines that assistant funeral directors can help with principal funeral directing functions such as conducting funeral services, arranging interments, working with families on funeral arrangements, and managing daily funeral establishment operations, but they are strictly prohibited from performing any embalming procedures. The licensed funeral director must supervise the assistant, maintain records of their collaborative agreement, and be responsible for the assistant's work. The bill also adds a new disciplinary provision that allows for terminating a collaborative agreement and employment if an assistant funeral director attempts to perform embalming. The bill includes an emergency clause, meaning it will take effect immediately upon passage and approval.

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