---
type: "Bill"
title: "Human Remains - Alkaline Hydrolysis and Natural Organic Reduction (Green Death Care Options Act)"
description: "Human Remains - Alkaline Hydrolysis and Natural Organic Reduction (Green Death Care Options Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1168"
citation: "Maryland HB 1168 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Boyce", "Charkoudian", "Cullison", "Fair", "Foley", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "McCaskill", "Pena-Melnyk", "Qi", "R. Lewis", "Rosenberg", "Ruth", "S. Johnson", "Sample-Hughes", "Solomon", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Williams", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-07"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6504cae6-35fd-4c1a-829b-2b93ca551378"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1168?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "71dfe01f402466e12c09de48ff9e2ec60bf606c949275e578827979a1ba0c1d8"
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 1168 (2024) — Human Remains - Alkaline Hydrolysis and Natural Organic Reduction (Green Death Care Options Act)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Human Remains - Alkaline Hydrolysis and Natural Organic Reduction (Green Death Care Options Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_600_hb1168t.pdf)
2. **First - Human Remains - Alkaline Hydrolysis and Natural Organic Reduction (Green Death Care Options Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb1168f.pdf)
3. **Third - Human Remains - Alkaline Hydrolysis and Natural Organic Reduction (Green Death Care Options Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb1168t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **127–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **34–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Boyce — primary (person)
- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Foley — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- McCaskill — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Qi — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
- Solomon — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-07** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-13** Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-01** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-01** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-01** Motion Special Order until 4/2 (Senator Kagan) Adopted
- **2024-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 600 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6504cae6-35fd-4c1a-829b-2b93ca551378`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).