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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Criminal Law - Destroying Funerary Objects and Cemetery Elements - Statute of Limitations and Prohibition"
+description: "Criminal Law - Destroying Funerary Objects and Cemetery Elements - Statute of Limitations and Prohibition"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 616"
+citation: "Maryland HB 616 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Adams", "Hutchinson", "Sample-Hughes", "Schmidt"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-01-23"
+last_action: "2025-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/49292622-caaf-40aa-b0b0-b5eeda168e3c"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0616?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "fc9484faffae536db704f685dffb08bad40395a54900b4e8a949055ea5229a0e"
+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 616 (2025) — Criminal Law - Destroying Funerary Objects and Cemetery Elements - Statute of Limitations and Prohibition
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Criminal Law - Destroying Funerary Objects and Cemetery Elements - Statute of Limitations and Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_159_hb0616e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Criminal Law - Destroying Funerary Objects and Cemetery Elements - Statute of Limitations and Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0616e.pdf)
+3. **First - Criminal Law - Destroying Funerary Objects and Cemetery Elements - Statute of Limitations and Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0616f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Criminal Law - Destroying Funerary Objects and Cemetery Elements - Statute of Limitations and Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0616t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Adams — primary (person)
+- Hutchinson — primary (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
+- Schmidt — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-23** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-27** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-02-24** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-25** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-02-28** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-26** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-27** Motion Special Order until 3/28 (Senator Ferguson) Adopted
+- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-02** House Concurs Senate Amendments
+- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-02** Passed Enrolled
+- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 159 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/49292622-caaf-40aa-b0b0-b5eeda168e3c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+