---
type: "Bill"
title: "Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Fund - Annual Funding and Extension"
description: "Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Fund - Annual Funding and Extension"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1370"
citation: "Maryland HB 1370 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Belcastro", "Bhandari", "Carr", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Hill", "Johnson", "K. Young", "Kaiser", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Landis", "Morgan", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pendergrass", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "Saab", "Sample-Hughes", "Szeliga"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-11"
last_action: "2022-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f45946d-90dd-4c1d-b080-26cc184c8946"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1370?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "eeb6ad2c520af5d995416b7130988913ebe14a048fb5a1b01be768b66ce65610"
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 1370 (2022) — Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Fund - Annual Funding and Extension

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Fund - Annual Funding and Extension** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_274_hb1370t.pdf)
2. **First - Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Fund - Annual Funding and Extension** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb1370f.pdf)
3. **Third - Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Fund - Annual Funding and Extension** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb1370t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **121–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Belcastro — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Carr — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Johnson — primary (person)
- K. Young — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kelly — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Landis — primary (person)
- Morgan — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Pendergrass — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Saab — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-11** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** Hearing 3/09 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-03-09** Hearing canceled
- **2022-03-09** Hearing 3/09 at 3:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-19** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-19** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Referred Finance Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-22** Hearing 3/31 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance)
- **2022-04-07** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 274 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3f45946d-90dd-4c1d-b080-26cc184c8946`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).