Ecological deathcare laws, state by state

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Where things standAugust 2026

Human composting legal

14

States plus DC where natural organic reduction is an authorised method of final disposition.

Aquamation legal

27

Of these, 5 have no licensed provider operating in state. The law permits it; nobody has opened.

Bills live

15

States with 15 tracked bills that would legalise a method not currently available there.

Neither legal

13

No statute and no bill tracked. Both methods remain reachable from these states by transporting to a legal one.

Active bills15 tracked

Bills that would legalise a method where it is not yet available. Tracked automatically and refreshed weekly; a bill's presence here is not a forecast that it will pass. Most do not.

Every state51 jurisdictions

How this is maintained

Bill status is pulled daily from OpenStates, with LegiScan as a second source. A change only reaches these pages after it passes the data checks that guard the record — every status must carry a bill number and a resolvable citation, and the published counts must still agree with the field guide. Anything that fails is left alone and flagged rather than published.

The statutes themselves are re-read end to end every quarter. That is what the review date at the top of each page refers to: not when a script last ran, but when a person last checked the law against its source. If that date is more than a hundred days old, every page says so at the top.

Where the published field guide and a legislature's own record disagree on a date, the primary record wins and the state's page carries a note explaining the discrepancy. Four states currently do.

The full dataset is available as JSON.