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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Criminal Law - Dismembering or Burying Human Remains With Intent to Conceal a Crime"
+description: "Criminal Law - Dismembering or Burying Human Remains With Intent to Conceal a Crime"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 674"
+citation: "Maryland HB 674 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Allen", "Arikan", "Kaufman", "Lopez", "McComas", "Phillips", "Sample-Hughes", "Shetty", "T. Morgan", "Taveras", "Taylor", "Tomlinson", "Williams", "Wims", "Woorman"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-24"
+last_action: "2025-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a4ee1ffb-7628-4849-8b11-c10374d93e20"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0674?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "70a536f03caf41ce1a862a05d80b7eee701481b2dc757ec3b27bda8c2754c2c0"
+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 674 (2025) — Criminal Law - Dismembering or Burying Human Remains With Intent to Conceal a Crime
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Criminal Law - Dismembering or Burying Human Remains With Intent to Conceal a Crime** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_545_hb0674t.pdf)
+2. **First - Criminal Law – Concealment of Death and Disturbing and Dismembering Human Remains** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0674f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Criminal Law - Dismembering or Burying Human Remains With Intent to Conceal a Crime** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0674t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Allen — primary (person)
+- Arikan — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- Lopez — primary (person)
+- McComas — primary (person)
+- Phillips — primary (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
+- Shetty — primary (person)
+- T. Morgan — primary (person)
+- Taveras — primary (person)
+- Taylor — primary (person)
+- Tomlinson — primary (person)
+- Williams — primary (person)
+- Wims — primary (person)
+- Woorman — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-24** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-27** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-17** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 545 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a4ee1ffb-7628-4849-8b11-c10374d93e20`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+