---
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).