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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Human Remains - Alkaline Hydrolysis and Natural Organic Reduction (Green Death Care Options Act)"
+description: "Human Remains - Alkaline Hydrolysis and Natural Organic Reduction (Green Death Care Options Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 1168"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1168 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Boyce", "Charkoudian", "Cullison", "Fair", "Foley", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "McCaskill", "Pena-Melnyk", "Qi", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "Ruth", "S. Johnson", "Sample-Hughes", "Solomon", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Williams", "Woods"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-02-07"
+last_action: "2024-05-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6504cae6-35fd-4c1a-829b-2b93ca551378"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1168?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "71dfe01f402466e12c09de48ff9e2ec60bf606c949275e578827979a1ba0c1d8"
+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 1168 (2024) — Human Remains - Alkaline Hydrolysis and Natural Organic Reduction (Green Death Care Options Act)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Human Remains - Alkaline Hydrolysis and Natural Organic Reduction (Green Death Care Options Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_600_hb1168t.pdf)
+2. **First - Human Remains - Alkaline Hydrolysis and Natural Organic Reduction (Green Death Care Options Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb1168f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Human Remains - Alkaline Hydrolysis and Natural Organic Reduction (Green Death Care Options Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb1168t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **127–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **34–12** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Boyce — primary (person)
+- Charkoudian — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Fair — primary (person)
+- Foley — primary (person)
+- Guzzone — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Hutchinson — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Lopez — primary (person)
+- Martinez — primary (person)
+- McCaskill — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- Qi — primary (person)
+- R. Lewis — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+- Ruth — primary (person)
+- S. Johnson — primary (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
+- Solomon — primary (person)
+- Taveras — primary (person)
+- White Holland — primary (person)
+- Williams — primary (person)
+- Woods — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-02-07** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-13** Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-18** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-01** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-01** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-01** Motion Special Order until 4/2 (Senator Kagan) Adopted
+- **2024-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-02** Second Reading Passed
+- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
+- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 600 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6504cae6-35fd-4c1a-829b-2b93ca551378`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+