HOUSE BILL No. 5353

 

February 25, 2014, Introduced by Reps. Hovey-Wright, Singh, Hooker, Kurtz, Rutledge, Durhal, Yanez, Darany, Banks, Slavens, Graves, Santana and Franz and referred to the Committee on Families, Children, and Seniors.

 

     A bill to amend 1986 PA 255, entitled

 

"Prepaid funeral and cemetery sales act,"

 

by amending section 10 (MCL 328.220), as amended by 2004 PA 21.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 10. (1) All A prepaid contracts contract provided for

 

under this act shall be either a nonguaranteed price contract or a

 

guaranteed price contract and shall be made and executed pursuant

 

only to this act.

 

     (2) After the effective date of the amendatory act that added

 

this subsection, before entering into a prepaid contract that

 

includes a gravesite in a private cemetery, the person offering the

 

contract shall disclose any requirement for a base, foundation, or

 

other preparation that will be necessary to accommodate a

 

government-funded gravestone or marker for the grave of a veteran

 


if the cost will be additional and will not be at a guaranteed

 

price that is included in the contract.