Maryland House Bill 735 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 24-2)
Status: Introduced on February 8 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-02-08 - Hearing 3/7 at 1:00 p.m.
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Clarifying that a person who feloniously and intentionally kills the decedent is disqualified from inheriting, taking, enjoying, receiving, or otherwise benefitting from the estate, insurance proceeds, or property of the decedent; clarifying that a person may not inherit, take, enjoy, receive, or otherwise benefit from the estate, insurance proceeds, or property of the decedent as a direct result of the disqualification of the killer of a decedent, even though that person is innocent of any wrongdoing; etc.

Estates and Trusts - Slayer's Rule (Ann Sue Metz Law)

Del. Susan Aumann [R]	Del. John Cluster [R]	Del. Kathleen Dumais [D]	Del. Donald Dwyer [R]
Sen. Adelaide Eckardt [R]	Del. Donald Elliott [R]	Del. William Frank [R]	Del. Glen Glass [R]
Del. Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio [D]	Sen. Stephen Hershey [R]	Del. Patrick Hogan [R]	Sen. Michael Hough [R]
Del. Jay Jacobs [R]	Del. Nicholaus Kipke [R]	Del. Susan Krebs [R]	Del. Susan McComas [R]
Del. Tony McConkey [R]	Del. Michael McDermott [R]	Del. Warren Miller [R]	Sen. Wayne Norman [R]
Del. Anthony O'Donnell [R]	Del. Charles Otto [R]	Del. Kelly Schulz [R]	Sen. Andrew Serafini [R]
Del. Kathy Szeliga [R]	Del. Cathleen Vitale [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-02-08		Hearing 3/7 at 1:00 p.m.
2012-02-08		First Reading Judiciary

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Search/Legislation?target=/2012rs/billfile/HB0735.htm
Text	http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/hb/hb0735f.pdf