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IL Lawmakers Consider Softening Cemetery Law
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The Illinois Legislature is considering a bill that rolls back cemetery regulations that were passed following a scandal that involved digging up graves for re-use.

Legislators and cemetery officials say a law passed last year that requires cemeteries to obtain expensive licenses and to feed information to a centralized grave database was too onerous.

They say the regulations would've put many small cemeteries out of business.

The new legislation exempts most of the state's cemeteries from complying with the law. Only private, for-profit cemeteries would have to abide by it. Those cemeteries perform a majority of the state's burials.

Detractors of the legislation say it goes too far and that the original law only requires tweaking.

The current law is Public Act 96-0863.

The bill is SB1853.

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