republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2023/hb-977.md

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Bill	Maryland Department of Health - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner	Maryland Department of Health - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2023	HB 977	Maryland HB 977 (2023)	bill		enacted	Alston Bagnall Bhandari Chisholm Cullison Guzzone Hill Hutchinson Kaiser Kerr Kipke Lopez M. Morgan Martinez Pena-Melnyk R. Lewis Reilly Rosenberg S. Johnson Szeliga Taveras White Woods	3	14	0	2023-02-10	2023-05-03	openstates	ocd-bill/4d8ecbfe-8f9d-4cc9-a762-af099d14084b	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0977?ys=2023RS&search=True	8f3af75414c5306ea43583b02afa96e88a342d5304f0119576319adfa950a62a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 977 (2023) — Maryland Department of Health - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Maryland Department of Health - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Maryland Department of Health - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Maryland Department of Health - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Alston — primary (person)
• Bagnall — primary (person)
• Bhandari — primary (person)
• Chisholm — primary (person)
• Cullison — primary (person)
• Guzzone — primary (person)
• Hill — primary (person)
• Hutchinson — primary (person)
• Kaiser — primary (person)
• Kerr — primary (person)
• Kipke — primary (person)
• Lopez — primary (person)
• M. Morgan — primary (person)
• Martinez — primary (person)
• Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
• R. Lewis — primary (person)
• Reilly — primary (person)
• Rosenberg — primary (person)
• S. Johnson — primary (person)
• Szeliga — primary (person)
• Taveras — primary (person)
• White — primary (person)
• Woods — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-10 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2023-02-21 Hearing 3/09 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2023-03-16 Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-16 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-16 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2023-03-20 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2023-03-20 Referred Finance referral-committee
• 2023-03-21 Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2023-04-04 Favorable Report by Finance committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-04 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-04 Second Reading Passed
• 2023-04-06 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2023-04-06 Returned Passed
• 2023-05-03 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 268 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4d8ecbfe-8f9d-4cc9-a762-af099d14084b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).