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Bill	Public Health - Disposition of Remains - Forfeiture or Waiver of Right of Disposition	Public Health - Disposition of Remains - Forfeiture or Waiver of Right of Disposition	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2019	HB 218	Maryland HB 218 (2019)	bill	Health Occupations Public Health Agents and Brokers Civil Actions Communications Contracts Cremation Death Divorce Family Law Forfeiture Funerals Health Health Occupations Liability Licenses Marriage Morticians Murder Notices Parents and Guardians Protection Orders Signatures Spouses Time	enacted	Krebs	1	15	3	2019-01-23	2019-04-30	openstates	ocd-bill/f8c21d91-46f4-4c2b-81d6-607c19f90c42	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB218&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs	f86c6b7804b0bcc41f73584b4fc2040130707228bb122a0171589227e8c52129	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 218 (2019) — Public Health - Disposition of Remains - Forfeiture or Waiver of Right of Disposition

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — 136–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 45–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 137–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Krebs — primary (person)
• Cullison — cosponsor (person)
• Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
• Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-23 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2019-01-23 Hearing 2/06 at 2:00 p.m.
• 2019-02-25 Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-26 Favorable with Amendments {686189/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-02-26 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2019-03-01 Third Reading Passed (137-0) passage
• 2019-03-04 First Reading Finance and Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2019-03-28 Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-28 Favorable with Amendments {347776/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-28 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2019-04-02 Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) passage
• 2019-04-03 House Concur - Senate Amendments
• 2019-04-03 Third Reading Passed (136-0) passage
• 2019-04-03 Passed Enrolled
• 2019-04-30 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 232 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f8c21d91-46f4-4c2b-81d6-607c19f90c42. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).