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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Abandoned and Neglected Cemeteries Fund - Establishment"
description: "Abandoned and Neglected Cemeteries Fund - Establishment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 963"
citation: "Maryland SB 963 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mautz"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b4b61f9-e76d-4fc5-a1cd-0b931189555e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0963?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "8b6dda1a6bea8eb9a439583c3389a5ad6ceb7228896efed30ef0ab4810c42869"
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 SB 963 (2025) — Abandoned and Neglected Cemeteries Fund - Establishment
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Abandoned and Neglected Cemeteries Fund - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_409_sb0963t.pdf)
2. **First - Abandoned and Neglected Cemeteries Fund - Establishment and Income Tax Checkoff** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0963f.pdf)
3. **Third - Abandoned and Neglected Cemeteries Fund - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0963t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **470** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **1380** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Mautz — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-03** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05** Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Referred Health and Government Operations Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-15** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 409 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b4b61f9-e76d-4fc5-a1cd-0b931189555e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).