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SF5305 • 2026

Public cemeteries requirement to allow individuals to be buried in accordance with their recognized religion

Public cemeteries requirement to allow individuals to be buried in accordance with their recognized religion

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Fateh
Last action
2026-05-16
Official status
Introduction and first reading
Effective date
Not listed

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Public cemeteries requirement to allow individuals to be buried in accordance with their recognized religion

Public cemeteries requirement to allow individuals to be buried in accordance with their recognized religion

What This Bill Does

  • Public cemeteries requirement to allow individuals to be buried in accordance with their recognized religion

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-16 House

    Introduction and first reading

Official Summary Text

Public cemeteries requirement to allow individuals to be buried in accordance with their recognized religion

Current Bill Text

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A bill for an act

relating to cemeteries; requiring public cemeteries to allow individuals to be buried

in accordance with their recognized religion; requiring public cemeteries to allow

green burials; amending Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 306.991,

subdivisions 2, 6; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter

306.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

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[306.98] BURIAL; RITES OF RECOGNIZED RELIGION.

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(a) For purposes of this section, "green burial" has the meaning given in section 149A.02,

subdivision 42.

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(b) A municipality, town, or other cemetery governed by this chapter must permit an

individual to be buried in accordance with the rites of the individual's recognized religion,

including but not limited to permitting an individual to be buried by green burial, if the

burial is performed in compliance with chapter 149A and, for green burials, in compliance

with chapter 149A and section 306.991.

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Sec. 2.

Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 306.991, subdivision 2, is amended

to read:

Subd. 2.

Green burial requirements.

A municipality, town, or other cemetery governed

by this chapter
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that allows for
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must allow
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green burials
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. A green burial
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must comply with

the requirements of this section.

Sec. 3.

Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 306.991, subdivision 6, is amended

to read:

Subd. 6.

Burial density.

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(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b),
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green burial plots must

be a maximum of 300 burials per acre over a 100-year period.

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(b) A municipality, town, or other cemetery governed by this chapter must permit green

burials at a greater density than the density specified in paragraph (a) for green burials of

individuals for whom green burial is an element of the burial rites of the individual's

recognized religion.

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