Proposed H.B. No. 5174
Session Year 2023

AN ACT REQUIRING PREPUBLICATION APPROVAL OF AN OBITUARY BY A SURVIVING SPOUSE.

To require that a newspaper published in this state obtain approval from a decedent's surviving spouse before publishing an obituary concerning the decedent.

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