Since 1881, the Ohio Funeral Directors Association (OFDA) has provided innovative programs, leadership, and excellent service to its membership.
As one of the largest state associations for funeral directors in the nation, OFDA has become a conduit for promoting the funeral profession and leading the field in education standards.
Fellow members need your help in answering critical questions. As an exclusive service to members, the OFDA's Q&A page allows you to share common questions and maybe not-so-common answers. You can even share your stories of unique and/or interesting services that you have provided. Maybe your story will answer someone's question before they even ask it!
The Buckeye Director is a great resource for news, tools, and Ohio’s funeral profession accomplishments. Reach out to OFDA to share your accomplishments and the different ways your funeral home gives back to your community!
As one of the largest state associations for funeral directors in the nation, OFDA has become a conduit for promoting the funeral profession and a vital link to having a voice in the legislative process.
There are no rules for how to have the talk with a loved one, only that you make time to do it. Everyone has a story to tell and there's always more you can learn about the one-of-a-kind lives your loved ones have led and the impact they have made on others.
From: Mark Merz, CFSP, President Jon Deitloff, CFSP, Chairman, Legislative Committee
The current session of the Ohio Legislature ends at the end of this year. The OFDA is working hard to pass H.B. 481 which makes several changes to Ohio’s funeral laws that will be helpful to your profession. The Legislature will not be in session until after the November 6th General Election, so there are only a few session days left to enact H.B. 481 in to Ohio law. H.B. 481 will do the following:
Inactive Status: Establish a new procedure to allow funeral directors and embalmers to place their licenses on inactive status.
Funeral Home License Applications: Clarify that when an existing funeral home is sold and the new owner files a new funeral home license application with the State Board of Embalmers & Funeral Directors (hereinafter “the Board”), that the funeral home can continue to operate until the Board meets to review the new application.
Courtesy Card License: Authorize the Board to issue Courtesy Card licenses to funeral directors in bordering states which would allow them to conduct limited funeral related activities in Ohio. (Adjoining states are enacting similar laws.)
Emergency License: Provide a license exemption to funeral directors from other states that come to Ohio to work with Ohio funeral directors during a declared emergency.
Cremation Identification: ClarifyOhio law to spell-out a funeral home’s obligation to arrange identification and the types of identification that satisfyOhio law. Under this provision, the funeral home is only obligated to carry out the visual identification of the decedent’s remains. The statute also allows the funeral home to rely upon the identification made by a coroner.
We are also working to restore language removed in the Ohio House to authorize the Board to license and regulate Alkaline Hydrolysis facilities in a similar manner as crematories.
OFDA PAC’s resources have been significantly depleted and we need your help right now to meet our political campaign obligations prior to the November election.
Please help support our efforts to improve the laws regulating funeral service in Ohio by making your personal contribution to “OFDA PAC” today! Thanks.
