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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Business Regulation - Cemeteries and Abandoned Cemeteries - Sale, Transfer, or Government Acquisition and Disposition"
+description: "Business Regulation - Cemeteries and Abandoned Cemeteries - Sale, Transfer, or Government Acquisition and Disposition"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 233"
+citation: "Maryland SB 233 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Beidle", "Ellis", "Gile", "Jackson", "Lam", "Ready", "Salling"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2026-01-15"
+last_action: "2026-05-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6a2b631-fd1e-4e6f-9720-528f47975f82"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0233?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "00ef4de076e66d397393050b655b90973e1d002039f516801f4c891f3a13a98b"
+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 SB 233 (2026) — Business Regulation - Cemeteries and Abandoned Cemeteries - Sale, Transfer, or Government Acquisition and Disposition
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Business Regulation - Cemeteries and Abandoned Cemeteries - Sale, Transfer, or Government Acquisition and Disposition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_545_sb0233e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Business Regulation - Cemeteries and Abandoned Cemeteries - Sale, Transfer, or Government Acquisition and Disposition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0233e.pdf)
+3. **First - Business Regulation - Cemeteries - Actions for Sale, Transfer, or Alternate Use** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0233f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Business Regulation - Cemeteries - Requirements for Sale or Transfer or Government Acquisition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0233t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (CCR Adp) — **132–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **134–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
+- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Beidle — primary (person)
+- Ellis — primary (person)
+- Gile — primary (person)
+- Jackson — primary (person)
+- Lam — primary (person)
+- Ready — primary (person)
+- Salling — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-15** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-20** Hearing 1/29 at 3:00 p.m.
+- **2026-02-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-02-19** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-02-20** Referred Economic Matters Health `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-24** Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 p.m. (Economic Matters)
+- **2026-04-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-09** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-04-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-10** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
+- **2026-04-10** Senate Requests House Recede
+- **2026-04-11** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
+- **2026-04-11** Senate Requests House Recede
+- **2026-04-11** House Refuses Recede
+- **2026-04-11** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Rogers, Charkoudian and Adams)
+- **2026-04-13** House Refuses Recede
+- **2026-04-13** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Rogers, Charkoudian and Adams)
+- **2026-04-13** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
+- **2026-04-13** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Jackson, Beidle and Ready)
+- **2026-04-13** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
+- **2026-04-13** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Jackson, Beidle and Ready)
+- **2026-04-13** Conference Committee Report {
+- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-13** Conference Committee Report {
+- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-13** Passed Enrolled
+- **2026-05-12** 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/a6a2b631-fd1e-4e6f-9720-528f47975f82`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+