A 6104 New Jersey General Assembly · 2024-2025 Regular Session

Authorizes cremation of unclaimed bodies by counties and storage of unclaimed bodies by hospitals.

This bill allows counties to choose cremation instead of burial for unclaimed bodies and requires hospitals to store unclaimed bodies for up to 30 days. If a body remains unclaimed after 30 days, the county must pay for cremation or burial. Cremains must be kept by medical examiners for at least one year before being interred, and families claiming a body later must pay disinterment costs. The bill directly affects counties, hospitals, medical examiners, and families of unclaimed deceased.
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Nov 2025
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Introduced Nov 24, 2025 Last action Nov 24, 2025
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Nov 24, 2025
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Introduced in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Health Committee
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