Executive director of Texas Funeral Service Commission fired
AUSTIN (KXAN) — During the Texas Funeral Service Commission’s (TFSC) regularly scheduled meeting Wednesday, commissioners moved to fire Scott Bingaman, the group’s now former executive director.
The TFSC oversees the death care industry across the state. This includes regulations related to cemetery and crematory services, funeral directing and embalming.
The agenda item for the discussion of Bingaman’s termination read: “Personnel matters: deliberate the employment, evaluation, duties, discipline, or dismissal of the Executive Director.”
According to the publicly available video of the meeting, this was discussed in closed session before Vice Chair Jonathan Scepanski was the first to move to terminate Bingaman. The motion was seconded, and nobody appeared to vote against the motion to terminate.
KXAN will update this story if we receive a response from Bingaman.
The most recent tie Bingaman and the TFSC have to Austin pertains to the corpse abuse investigation into Capital Mortuary Services and medical research facility MedtoMarket, where two individuals are accused of conducting embalming “experiments” on corpses without proper licensing or permission.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
