Regulatory agency report from 2007 recommends no licensing

Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA - Sunrise Review of the Funeral Service Practitioner.  Dec 6. 2007

This makes illuminating reading and comes via the Funeral Consumers' Society of Colorado informational sheet on last year's licensing bill attempt.

This is from the FCSC document.

Colorado's Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) recently investigated the need for licensing the funeral industry.  This was done at the request of the funeral industry itself, for the second time in six years.  DORA again concluded that 

(FROM THE DORA REPORT ACCORDING TO THE FSCS) 

"no evidence was presented that demonstrated that Colorado practitioners lacked competency, skills or education to warrant an increase in regulatory oversight through a licensure program."  

FCSC document further states "DORA found no need for formal licensing and instead recommended mere registration."