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Amend section 1, page 1, by deleting lines 8 through 11 and inserting:
“patient at the facility or home, the facility or home shall allow visitation rights to any person designated by the patient in a letter, form or other document authorizing visitation executed in accordance with subsection 2. The visitation rights required by this subsection must be:
(a) Provided in accordance with the visitation policies of the facility or home; and
(b) The same visitation rights that are provided to a member of the patient’s family who is legally related to the patient.”.
Amend section 1, page 2, by deleting lines 4 through 8 and inserting:
“residential care may execute a letter, form or other document authorizing visitation in substantially the following form:”.
Amend section 1, page 2, by deleting lines 22 through 25 and inserting:
“........................................................................
(Signed)”.
Amend sec. 3, page 2, line 38, before “A” by inserting:
“1. The following persons, in the following order of priority, may order the burial of human remains of a deceased person:
(a) A person designated as the person with authority to order the burial of the human remains of the decedent in a legally valid document or in an affidavit executed in accordance with subsection 5;
(b) The spouse of the decedent;
(c) An adult son or daughter of the decedent;
(d) Either parent of the decedent;
(e) An adult brother or sister of the decedent;
(f) A grandparent of the decedent;
(g) A guardian of the person of the decedent at the time of death; and
(h) A person who held the primary domicile of the decedent in joint tenancy with the decedent at the time of death.
2. If the deceased person was an indigent or other person for whom the final disposition of the decedent’s remains is a responsibility of a county or the State, the appropriate public officer may order the burial of the remains and provide for the respectful disposition of the remains.
3. If the deceased person donated his body for scientific research or, before his death, a medical facility was made responsible for his final disposition, a representative of the scientific institution or medical facility may order the burial of his remains.
4. A living person may order the burial of human remains removed from his body or the burial of his body after his death. In the latter case, any person acting pursuant to his instructions is an authorized agent.
5.”.
Amend sec. 5, page 3, by deleting lines 31 through 33 and inserting:
“[(e)] (f) A grandparent of the decedent; [and
(f)] (g) A guardian of the person of the decedent at the time of death [.] ; and
(h) A person who held the primary domicile of the decedent in joint tenancy with the decedent at the time of death.”.
Amend sec. 6, page 5, line 7, by deleting “and”.
Amend sec. 6, page 5, by deleting line 9 and inserting:
“death; and
(h) A person who held the primary domicile of the decedent in joint tenancy with the decedent at the time of death.”.
Amend the title of the bill, sixth line, after “death;” by inserting:
“revising related provisions governing the priority of persons authorized to make decisions concerning anatomical gifts, burial and cremation of human remains on behalf of a decedent;”.