Editing Body Worlds (section)

====California====
California's proposed bill AB1519 (Ma), sponsored by Assemblywoman [[Fiona Ma]],<ref>{{cite web|author=Ma |url=http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_1501-1550/ab_1519_bill_20080617_amended_sen_v92.html |title=California State bill AB1519 (Ma) |publisher=Leginfo.ca.gov |access-date=25 February 2010}}</ref> tried to "require exhibitors to get a county permit; to do so, they would have to prove to county health officials that the people whose cadavers were on display—or their next of kin—had consented".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-corpse25jan25,0,2070702.story |title=Cadaver shows raise consent concerns – Los Angeles Times |work=Los Angeles Times |date=25 January 2008 |first=Marc |last=Lifsher |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080129210804/http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-corpse25jan25%2C0%2C2070702.story |archive-date=29 January 2008 }}</ref>

Assembly Bill 1519 would have made California the first state to require such proof.<ref name="californiachronicle.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/71686 |title=Legislation to Regulate Dead Body Exhibits Moves on to The Governor |publisher=Californiachronicle.com |access-date=25 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911144748/http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/71686 |archive-date=11 September 2011 }}</ref> It was vetoed by Governor [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] on 26 September 2008.<ref>[http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_1501-1550/ab_1519_bill_20080926_history.html A.B. No. 1519 bill history, from the Government of California]</ref>