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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Burial Sites – Access, Required Consultation, and Tax Credit"
+description: "Burial Sites – Access, Required Consultation, and Tax Credit"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 877"
+citation: "Maryland HB 877 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Real Property", "Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Business Regulation and Occupations", "Cemeteries", "Committees and Commissions", "Counties", "Crimes and Punishments", "Damages", "Historical Matters", "Liability", "Municipal Corporations", "Penalties and Sentences", "Real Property", "Rules and Regulations", "Tax Credits", "Zoning and Planning"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Knotts"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-05"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cce86327-a245-4b5c-a3b2-c321ffcefafa"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB877&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "08e0369d36f6dfb761af2dd30c89ae20215501a064907dbb51a5c7301235885c"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
+---
+
+# Maryland HB 877 (2018) — Burial Sites – Access, Required Consultation, and Tax Credit
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0877f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Knotts — primary (person)
+- Angel — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-05** First Reading Health and Government Operations and Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
+- **2018-03-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-19** Favorable with Amendments {416581/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-19** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-19** First Reading Finance and Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-21** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance)
+- **2018-03-28** Hearing canceled (Finance)
+- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-29** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-30** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-02** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 506 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cce86327-a245-4b5c-a3b2-c321ffcefafa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+