
Board of Mortuary Arts
TENTATIVE AGENDA
For the meeting of January
14,
2010
Last Updated: Friday, March 19, 2010
The
filing deadline for the April 8, 2010 board meeting was March 15, 2010.
All
documents/applications/paperwork must have been filed with the board's
office by this
date.
Please note that
the actual final agenda will
be approved first thing at the meeting
on Thursday, April 8, 2010
to be held at the board's Topeka office. Times and order of
this Tentative Agenda
are subject to change.
On Wednesday, April 7,
2010, at 3:00 p.m., the Investigative Committee
is scheduled to meet in the board's Topeka office to discuss
current open complaints and investigations.
Thursday,
April 8, 2010
9:00 a.m. Call to Order by President Fred
Holroyd
Roll Call by Executive Secretary
Mack
Smith
Welcome new Board
Member Diane Minear
Review of (this) Tentative
Agenda
Adoption
of Final Agenda
Location of lunch
Review/adoption
of the January 14,
2010 board meeting minutes
Review of January 14, 2010 funeral director examination
results and
exit comments
Review of
February, March and April assistant funeral director examination
results
Review
of information pertaining
to licensure applicants
9:15
a.m. Review
of information for all applicants for licensure and all other
apprentice/supervising
progress
reports and
related correspondence
9:30 a.m.
Complaints and Legal Concerns
Correspondence resulting from the January
14, 2010
meeting
Investigative
Committee recommendations and actions
Updated information regarding Lincoln
Memorial Life Insurance Company/National Prearranged Services (NPS)
Other legal concerns
9:45 a.m. Legislative Discussion
Review and discussion of 2010
legislature relating to funeral service, including
SB 391--Anatomical
Gift Act
SB 448--Vital
Statistics bill that would change several 'death' related definitions
Substitute for
SB 475--Requested by the KFDA and would update several definitions
such as funeral services and others
SB
506--Requested by the KSBMA and would license crematory operators
HB 2588--Requested
by the KFDA and would increase from $5,000 to $7,000 the maximum amount
of an irrevocably funded funeral
HB 2589--Requested
by the KFDA and would require several new disclosures by licensees to
the public
HB 2679--Regarding
abandoned cemeteries
HB 2712--Requested
by the Secretary of State and involves cemetery merchandise contracts
and permanent maintenance funds
HB 2713--Requested
by the Secretary of State and involves providing for certain
enforcement actions
Funeral Assistance
Program Update of the Kansas Department of Rehabilitation Services (SRS)
10:10
a.m. Discussion/Action
on the following
Board Business:
1)
Continuing Education (CE)
2) Lapsed
licenses to be considered at this meeting
3) Automatically
suspended licenses
4) Inspector's FY 2010 3rd Quarter Report (January-March
2010)
5) Review of the Current
Roster of Kansas Apprentices
6) Discussion of distributed information/news articles
7) Remaining regularly scheduled board meeting
dates: July 8 and
October 14
8) Signing of travel vouchers and
licenses
10:25
a.m. Executive
Secretary's
Report/Updates:
1)
Updated Budget Information
2) International Conference of Funeral Service Examining
Boards (ICFSEB)
a) Annual
Convention
3) Council of
Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation (CLEAR)
4) Federation of Associations of Regulatory Boards (FARB)
updated information:
a) 2010
Annual
FARB Forum
5) Kansas Funeral Directors and Embalmers Association
(KFDA)
a) 2010 Spring Regional
Meetings
6) KSBMA
agency web site update/discussion:
a) Web site hits
b) Update on KSBMA online
payment of
license renewals
7) National Funeral Directors and Embalmers Association
(NFDA) update/information
8)
Federal Trade
Commission's (FTC)
Funeral Rule update/information
a) Any updates available
regarding federal legislation (H.R. 3655) to amend
the funeral rule, known as The
Consumer's Bill of Rights Act of 2009
9) American Board of
Funeral Service Education (ABFSE)
10) Cremation Society of
North America (CANA)
update/information
a) Update of the Model Cremation Law
b) Alkaline Hydrolysis
11) Funeral Ethics Association (FEA)
update/information
12) Funeral Consumer's Alliance (FCA)
update/information
13) The
Funeral Consumer's Alliance of Greater Kansas
City
14)
Funeral Ethics Organization (FEO)
update/information
15)
American Society of Embalmers (ASE)
16) Kansas
Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) Office
of Vital Statistics (OVS)
17) Kansas City Kansas Community College (KCKCC) Mortuary
Science Update KCKCC
Catalog Information
18) Kansas Mass Fatality Planning Task Force
19) Kansas Largest Corporations Listing
20) SMART/FMS Update
Applicants for Licensure to meet
with the Board
10:40 a.m.
Embalmer-Funeral Director Applicant Rev. Dr. Curtiss P. Davis
10:50 a.m. Embalmer-Funeral Director Applicant Ms.
Lynsie M. Dickey
11:00 a.m. Embalmer Applicant Ms. Keesha M. Harris
11:10 a.m. Embalmer-Funeral Director Applicant Mr.
Christopher M. Hatton
11:20 a.m. Embalmer-Funeral Director Applicant Mr.
Aaron V. Overlease
11:30 a.m.
Funeral Director
Applicant Mr. Terry L. Roberts
11:40 a.m.
Reciprocal (Illinois) Embalmer-Funeral
Director Applicant Ms. Laura C. Henderson
11:50 a.m. Funeral Director Applicant Ms. Brooke T.
Chadd
12 noon Reciprocal (Missouri) Funeral Director Applicant Mr.
Greg D. Mullinax
11:45
a.m. Announcements
New,Old and/or Remaining Business
Adjournment--subject to recall by the president, vice president or
executive secretary
The next
regularly scheduled board
meeting:
Thursday, July 8, 2010
12:00 p.m.
Lunch at a location to be
determined when considering a Final Agenda at the beginning of the
meeting
1:15
p.m. Funeral director examinees to meet
in the Florentine Room located on the first
floor of the
Jayhawk
Tower. There
will
be signs in the lobby
directing examinees to the
Florentine
Room.
1:30
p.m.
Funeral
Director examination begins - administered by KSBMA Inspector Francis
Mills.
700 SW Jackson Street, Suite 904 -
Topeka, Kansas 66603-3733
phone:(785)-296-3980 - fax:(785)296-0891
- email:
boma1@ksbma.ks.gov
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