MinnesotaMinnesota cemeteries would allow religious and green burials
In Minnesota, covered cemeteries would have to allow religious burial rites, including green burial, and allow greater density for some religious green burials.
What it does
Covered cemeteries would have to allow people to be buried according to their recognized religion, including through green burial when it follows state rules.
Covered cemeteries would have to allow green burials. The usual limit would be 300 burials per acre over 100 years, with greater density allowed for religious green burials.
Argument forPeople whose recognized religion calls for green burial could follow those rites in covered cemeteries, even where that requires denser burial.
Argument againstCemeteries could have less room for other burials if they must allow religious green burials at densities above the usual limit.
More detail
Covered cemeteries would have to permit burial rites of a person's recognized religion, including green burial. This applies to municipalities, towns, and other cemeteries governed by Minnesota Statutes chapter 306. The burial must follow chapter 149A. Green burials must also follow section 306.991.
Covered cemeteries would have to allow green burials and allow greater density for certain religious green burials. This applies to municipalities, towns, and other cemeteries governed by chapter 306. Green burial plots generally could have no more than 300 burials per acre over 100 years. A cemetery would have to allow greater density when green burial is part of the person's recognized religious rites.
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- Introduced
- Passed 1st Chamber
- Passed 2nd Chamber
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- May 17Author added JonesLatest
- May 16Introduction and first reading, referred to Health Finance and PolicyIntroduced