---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax - Opportunity for Filers to Register to Make Anatomical Gift"
description: "Income Tax - Opportunity for Filers to Register to Make Anatomical Gift"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 577"
citation: "Maryland SB 577 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["King"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-25"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6b1a22c-b8a2-4804-8cfc-1b5e5a04a901"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0577?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ade5a39592b951ccfb89daae329a3d3ea132b8f2cdafd3f62a31b3f8b8c52d6f"
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 577 (2024) — Income Tax - Opportunity for Filers to Register to Make Anatomical Gift

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Income Tax - Opportunity for Filers to Register to Make Anatomical Gift** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_189_sb0577t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act - Donors - Registration by Tax Return Checkoff** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0577f.pdf)
3. **Third - Income Tax - Opportunity for Filers to Register to Make Anatomical Gift** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0577t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- King — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-01-25** First Reading Budget and Taxation and Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-29** Hearing 2/07 at 2:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation)
- **2024-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Referred Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-05** Rereferred to Ways and Means
- **2024-04-06** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-06** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 189 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c6b1a22c-b8a2-4804-8cfc-1b5e5a04a901`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).