SESSION ENROLLEDREPRINT VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY –– CHAPTER E191 An Act to direct the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers to convene a work group to study how to regulate and implement the process of alkaline hydrolysis in the Commonwealth.

R[S O129] Approved [SApril 129]7, L2022 L Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

consisting1. of relevant stakeholders to determine the (i) regulatory and statutory changes needed to legalize, implement, and regulate the process of alkaline hydrolysis in the Commonwealth;

§ 1.

That the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers (the Board) shall convene a work group consisting of relevant stakeholders to determine the (i) regulatory and statutory changes needed to legalize, implement, and regulate the process of alkaline hydrolysis in the Commonwealth;

and (iv) proper grouprequirements shall provide opportunity for publiclicensure participationas andan considerowner anyor necessaryoperator environmentalhe work precautions and safety measures to ensure proper (a) regulation and implementation of thesuch alkalinea hydrolysisfacility. process and (b) regulation and inspection of facilities where alkaline hydrolysis is conducted Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions onate or before November 1, 2022.

2In Econducting Rits study, the work precautions and safety measures to ensure proper (a) regulation and implementation of the alkaline hydrolysis process and (b) regulation and inspection of facilities where alkaline hydrolysis is conducted in the Commonwealth.

The Board shall report the results of such study to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions on or before November 1, 2022.