2025 Regular SessionMaryland Legislature

HB1000: Criminal Law - Human Remains, Pet Remains, and Cemeteries - Prohibitions

Legislative Summary

Altering the definition of "permanent cemetery" to include a cemetery owned by a family or religious organization; prohibiting a person from tampering with human remains interred in a cemetery; altering certain penalties relating to prohibitions against removal of human remains from a burial site; prohibiting a person from damaging, desecrating, mutilating, storing, tampering with, trafficking, or transporting human remains; etc.

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Bill History

1/31/2025
First Reading Judiciary and Health and Government Operations
House of Delegates
1/31/2025
Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m. (Judiciary)
House of Delegates
2/17/2025
Hearing canceled (Judiciary)
House of Delegates
2/17/2025
Hearing 2/18 at 11:00 a.m. (Judiciary)
House of Delegates

Status Information

Current Status
Introduced(1/31/2025)
Chamber
House of Delegates
Committee
Judiciary(House of Delegates)

Documents

Introduced
Bill Text1/31/2025138.2 KB