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type: "Bill"
title: "Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Fund - Donor Registry - Annual Funding"
description: "Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Fund - Donor Registry - Annual Funding"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 691"
citation: "Maryland HB 691 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Estates and Trusts", "Appropriations", "Health", "Health", "Department of", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Organ Donorship", "Revenue and Taxes", "Sunset"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pena-Melnyk"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-31"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b451bfd9-747a-45cf-ba63-6a4351090bd8"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB691&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "7a74e0a850414a1997757abe6f10bde53c2dbd921d17c77a6c65f7d6d5ee4c62"
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 691 (2018) — Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Fund - Donor Registry - Annual Funding
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0691f.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1344** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **450** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-31** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {276289/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (134-4) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-30** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 444 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b451bfd9-747a-45cf-ba63-6a4351090bd8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).