Senate committee substitute makes the following changes to 3rd edition. Amends GS 90-210.25, deleting requirement that a funeral service licensee make available their certificate of professional liability insurance during any inspection by the Board when practicing without being an agent of a licensed funeral establishment. Also removes requirement to practice to annually provide to the Board the name and address of the funeral establishment where embalming is performed. Reduces amount of professional liability insurance limit (insurance) required for permit for transportation of a dead human body to $500,000. 

Amends GS 90-120.27A, deleting requirement for a funeral establishment to maintain insurance of $1 million. Allows human remains to be stored in an embalming facility. Deletes amendments to GS 90-210.61(a), concerning preneed funeral funds. Amends GS 90-210.63(a), deleting added subsection (4), which required the original contracting preneed licensee to immediately pay all funds received to the successor funeral establishment designated. Amends GS 90-210.67, removing provision allowing for sale of preneed funeral contracts or insurance policies to any preneed establishment owned by the same corportation or at two or more preneed establishments owned by different entities. Amends GS 90-210.68, removing requirement for each preneed licensee to report annually to the Board on its preneed funeral contract performance. Amends GS 90-210.123, removing requirement that the owner or manager of a cremation facility be a licensed funeral director or funeral service licensee.