MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA - The Alabama Senate gave final passage Thursday to a bill aimed at preventing the grotesque discarding of corpses that occurred in Georgia. <br>
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The Senate passed a bill that gives the Alabama Board of Funeral Service the power to regulate the cremation process. Under this bill, crematories would be inspected at least once a year, would be required to maintain paperwork on each body cremated and could cremate only one body at a time. <br>
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The bill, sponsored by Sen. Harri Anne Smith, R-Slocumb, now goes to Gov. Don Siegelman for his signature. <br>
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When the bill passed the House, Rep. Lesley Vance, D-Phenix City, said it would prevent the wrongdoing that occurred in Noble, Ga., where more than 300 bodies have been found on the grounds of a crematory. The bodies had been delivered to the crematory by funeral homes, but were never cremated. <br>
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The Alabama bill was being developed before the bodies were discovered in Georgia, but was put on the fast track in recent weeks.
