2026 Legislative Council Study Committee on Cemeteries

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The 2026 Legislative Council Study Committee on Cemeteries is directed to conduct a recodification of subch. II, ch. 157, Stats., relating to cemeteries, and subchs. VII and IX, ch. 440, Stats., relating to crematory authorities and cemetery authorities, salespersons, and preneed sellers, to include reorganizing the sections in a logical manner, renumbering and retitling sections, consolidating related provisions, modernizing language, resolving ambiguities in language, making other necessary organizational changes, and making minor substantive changes. The study committee may recommend mechanisms for providing guidance on these subchapters, written concisely and in language clearly understood by those required to comply with them, as well as legislation addressing the abandonment of cemeteries and the burial of human remains on noncemetery property.

On August 5, 2026, the committee will meet on the following agenda:

• Organizational matters
• Presentations by invited speakers: Representatives of the Wisconsin Historical Society; Representative of the Wisconsin Towns Association
• Discussion of committee assignment.