Senate committee substitute makes the following changes to the 1st edition.

Delays the reporting requirement for the study on providing women with timely and equitable access to high-quality, risk-appropriate maternal and neonatal care by a year to now require an interim report to the 2019 Regular Session of the 2019 General Assembly on or before May 1, 2019, and a final report of its findings and recommendations to the 2020 General Assembly.

Adds a section amending GS 90-210.129 by making an exception to the prohibition on the simultaneous cremation of the human remains of more than one person in the same cremation chamber to allow simultaneous cremation with the express written direction of the authorized agent for the human remains of multiple fetuses from the same mother and the same birth, or the human remains of multiple persons up to the age of one year old from the same mother and the same birth.

Makes conforming changes to the act's long title.