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Colorado governor signs bills regulating funeral homes after discovery of 190 rotting bodies
![David Zalubowski Patty Salazar, front, executive director of Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, speaks while state representatives Brianna Titone, back left, and Matt Soper look on before Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs bills into law to bring more comprehensive guidelines into place for funeral facilities Friday, May 24, 2024, during a ceremony outside the Governor's mansion in downtown Denver. Titone and Soper sponsored the bills along with senators Dylan Roberts and Bob Gardner. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/8bf209108bd645409dc2297438afcd9a/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Patty Salazar, front, executive director of Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, speaks while state representatives Brianna Titone, back left, and Matt Soper look on before Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs bills into law to bring more comprehensive guidelines into place for funeral facilities Friday, May 24, 2024, during a ceremony outside the Governor's mansion in downtown Denver. Titone and Soper sponsored the bills along with senators Dylan Roberts and Bob Gardner. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
![David Zalubowski Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, front center, signs bills into law to bring more comprehensive guidelines into place for funeral facilities Friday, May 24, 2024, during a ceremony outside the Governor's mansion in downtown Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/fb6339182cde495e9068b11af67e2891/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, front center, signs bills into law to bring more comprehensive guidelines into place for funeral facilities Friday, May 24, 2024, during a ceremony outside the Governor's mansion in downtown Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
![Parker Seibold FILE - Fremont County coroner Randy Keller, left, and other authorities unload materials that will be used to put up tents at the Return to Nature Funeral Home where over 100 bodies have been improperly stored, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, in Penrose, Colo. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is set to sign two bills Friday, May 24, 2024, that overhaul the state's oversight of the funeral home industry after a series of gruesome discoveries, including 190 discomposing bodies in a facility, families being sent fake ashes and the unauthorized sale of body parts.(Parker Seibold/The Gazette via AP, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/895e83bdff5c48b98dd843f398465219/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
FILE - Fremont County coroner Randy Keller, left, and other authorities unload materials that will be used to put up tents at the Return to Nature Funeral Home where over 100 bodies have been improperly stored, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, in Penrose, Colo. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is set to sign two bills Friday, May 24, 2024, that overhaul the state's oversight of the funeral home industry after a series of gruesome discoveries, including 190 discomposing bodies in a facility, families being sent fake ashes and the unauthorized sale of body parts.(Parker Seibold/The Gazette via AP, File)
![Hyoung Chang FILE - Colorado Governor Jared Polis delivers the 2024 State of the State address to a joint session of the legislature in the House of Representatives in the State Capitol, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, in Denver. Polis is set to sign two bills Friday, May 24, that overhaul the state's oversight of the funeral home industry after a series of gruesome discoveries, including 190 discomposing bodies in a facility, families being sent fake ashes and the unauthorized sale of body parts.(Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via AP, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/f6b84f4ee4ee42d0a4fcca9781063406/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
FILE - Colorado Governor Jared Polis delivers the 2024 State of the State address to a joint session of the legislature in the House of Representatives in the State Capitol, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, in Denver. Polis is set to sign two bills Friday, May 24, that overhaul the state's oversight of the funeral home industry after a series of gruesome discoveries, including 190 discomposing bodies in a facility, families being sent fake ashes and the unauthorized sale of body parts.(Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via AP, File)
![David Zalubowski Colorado Rep. Eliza Hamrick, front, speaks as, from bak left, Patty Salazar, executive director of the Departmwent of Regulatory Agencies, representatives Brianna Titone, Matt Soper and Gov. Jared Polis look on before Polis signs bills into law to bring more comprehensive guidelines into place for funeral facilities Friday, May 24, 2024, during a ceremony outside the Governor's mansion in downtown Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/1ddbe199818b4ef19f07533d65417e9b/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Colorado Rep. Eliza Hamrick, front, speaks as, from bak left, Patty Salazar, executive director of the Departmwent of Regulatory Agencies, representatives Brianna Titone, Matt Soper and Gov. Jared Polis look on before Polis signs bills into law to bring more comprehensive guidelines into place for funeral facilities Friday, May 24, 2024, during a ceremony outside the Governor's mansion in downtown Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
![David Zalubowski Samantha Naranjo of Colorado Springs, Colo., wears a shirt bearing the likeness of her mother, Dorothy Tardif, to a ceremony at which Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed bills into law to bring more comprehensive guidelines into place for funeral facilities Friday, May 24, 2024, during a ceremony outside the Governor's mansion in downtown Denver. The remains of Dorothy Tardif were among the bodies of 190 people found in a funeral facility in Penrose, Colo., last fall. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/229badd66ec5420388edaa4ef38344f0/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Samantha Naranjo of Colorado Springs, Colo., wears a shirt bearing the likeness of her mother, Dorothy Tardif, to a ceremony at which Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed bills into law to bring more comprehensive guidelines into place for funeral facilities Friday, May 24, 2024, during a ceremony outside the Governor's mansion in downtown Denver. The remains of Dorothy Tardif were among the bodies of 190 people found in a funeral facility in Penrose, Colo., last fall. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
![David Zalubowski Cori Sperry, left, consoles her 12-year-old son, Colton, before Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs bills into law to bring more comprehensive guidelines into place for funeral facilities Friday, May 24, 2024, during a ceremony outside the Governor's mansion in downtown Denver. Sperry's mother was one of the 190 bodies found being stored in a funeral facility in Penrose, Colo., last fall. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/3bea6437091a4adb84eff21434a0878d/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Cori Sperry, left, consoles her 12-year-old son, Colton, before Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs bills into law to bring more comprehensive guidelines into place for funeral facilities Friday, May 24, 2024, during a ceremony outside the Governor's mansion in downtown Denver. Sperry's mother was one of the 190 bodies found being stored in a funeral facility in Penrose, Colo., last fall. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
![David Zalubowski Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaks before signing bills into law to bring more comprehensive guidelines into place for funeral facilities Friday, May 24, 2024, during a ceremony outside the Governor's mansion in downtown Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/acd8674bdcd840a3bb22f91cda26929b/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaks before signing bills into law to bring more comprehensive guidelines into place for funeral facilities Friday, May 24, 2024, during a ceremony outside the Governor's mansion in downtown Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
![David Zalubowski Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, center, prepares to sign as bill sponsors Sen. Dylan Roberts, far right, and Rep. Matt Soper, far left, look on to bring more comprehensive guidelines into place for funeral facilities Friday, May 24, 2024, during a ceremony outside the Governor's mansion in downtown Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/2a0c6e2091124b478c067b5f13f5c2b5/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, center, prepares to sign as bill sponsors Sen. Dylan Roberts, far right, and Rep. Matt Soper, far left, look on to bring more comprehensive guidelines into place for funeral facilities Friday, May 24, 2024, during a ceremony outside the Governor's mansion in downtown Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)