| MD | SB246 | Pass | Expanding the purposes of the Maryland Veterans Trust to include providing monetary and other assistance to members of the Maryland National Guard and their families; and authorizing the Maryland Veterans Trust to expend money from the Maryland Veter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 618 |
| MD | HB228 | Pass | Expanding the purposes of the Maryland Veterans Trust to include providing monetary and other assistance to members of the Maryland National Guard and their families; and authorizing the Maryland Veterans Trust to expend money from the Maryland Veter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 617 |
| MD | SB566 | Pass | Increasing the filing fee required to accompany an order to docket or a complaint to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property from $300 to $450.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 569 |
| MD | HB796 | Pass | Increasing the filing fee required to accompany an order to docket or a complaint to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property from $300 to $450.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 581 |
| MD | SB172 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Board of Trustees of the Maryland Veterans Trust to include the Secretary of Disabilities or the Secretary's designee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 267 |
| MD | HB932 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to place certain interests into a certain certified blind trust or divest of certain interests within 6 months after taking the oath of office; requiring the Governor to enter into a nonparticipation agreement with the State Et...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 300 |
| MD | SB126 | Pass | Authorizing the trustee of a trust to resign under the Maryland Trust Act on 30 days' notice to qualified beneficiaries, the settlor, if living, all cotrustees, and any person that has a right to replace or appoint a successor to the resigning truste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 229 |
| MD | HB146 | Pass | Authorizing the trustee of a trust to resign under the Maryland Trust Act on 30 days' notice to qualified beneficiaries, the settlor, if living, all cotrustees, and any person that has a right to replace or appoint a successor to the resigning truste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 228 |
| MD | SB19 | Pass | Clarifying the commissions that a guardian of the property may charge; authorizing a trustee of a trust to charge compensation that is reasonable under the circumstances; and authorizing trustees who are financial institutions or members of the Maryl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 223 |
| MD | SB158 | Pass | Specifying the manner in which notice regarding an exercise of the decanting power or the sending of a document under the Maryland Trust Decanting Act is required to be provided.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 222 |
| MD | HB88 | Pass | Specifying the manner in which notice regarding an exercise of the decanting power or the sending of a document under the Maryland Trust Decanting Act is required to be provided.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 221 |
| MD | HB27 | Pass | Clarifying the commissions that a guardian of the property may charge; authorizing a trustee of a trust to charge compensation that is reasonable under the circumstances; and authorizing trustees who are financial institutions or members of the Maryl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 224 |
| MD | HB261 | Pass | Prioritizing the payment of unpaid child support over certain other claims on an estate of a decedent with insufficient assets to pay all claims in full.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 225 |
| MD | HB315 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force to Study Fiduciary Adjudication in Maryland to examine and analyze the efficiency, uniformity, and quality of fiduciary adjudication in Maryland and make recommendations; requiring the orphans' courts, circuit courts, regi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 220 |
| MD | HB323 | Pass | Clarifying required information for registering a domestic partnership or obtaining a marriage license; and requiring a declaration of domestic partnership filed with the register of wills to include the Social Security number of each domestic partne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 226 |
| MD | SB286 | Pass | Clarifying required information for registering a domestic partnership or obtaining a marriage license; and requiring a declaration of domestic partnership filed with the register of wills to include the Social Security number of each domestic partne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 227 |
| MD | HB59 | Pass | Authorizing a tax collector to withhold from tax sale certain property occupied by an heir of a deceased owner of the property; requiring that certain owner-occupied property and certain property occupied by an heir of a deceased owner of the propert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 231 |
| MD | HB1516 | Pass | Providing that certain provisions of law governing the licensing of providers of certain financial services in the State do not apply to a certain trust that acquires or is assigned a certain mortgage loan under certain circumstances; establishing th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 119 |
| MD | SB1026 | Pass | Providing that certain provisions of law governing the licensing of providers of certain financial services in the State do not apply to a certain person that acquires or is assigned a certain mortgage, mortgage loan, or installment loan under certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 118 |
| MD | HB604 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person who is a caregiver to or a family member or household member of an individual from knowingly and willfully obtaining the property of the individual with the intent to deprive the individual of the individual's property if the ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| MD | SB466 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person who is a caregiver to or a family member or household member of an individual from knowingly and willfully exerting unauthorized control over and obtaining the property of the individual with intent to deprive the individual of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB623 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the registers of wills for each county and Baltimore City to, in coordination, establish a centralized website for use by all registers to publish certain notice; altering certain requirements for publication of notice relating to the appoi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB756 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a party to the guardianship of the property of an alleged disabled person to request a stay of certain civil actions or proceedings on the filing of a petition for guardianship of the property of an alleged disabled person; requiring a ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB586 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that the assets of any Methodist Church be held in trust for the United Methodist Church and be subject to the control of the Church; repealing a provision of law providing that the absence of a trust clause in any deed or con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1420 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing the prohibition on a register of wills or court granting letters in administrative or judicial probate to certain individuals who are not citizens of the United States.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB918 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the maximum annual salary of a register of wills may not be more than the salary of a State employee at grade 26, step 20 of the State of Maryland Standard and Bargaining Salary Scale in effect on the day before the register begins a n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1472 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a certain Ten Commandments Monument to be placed on the grounds of the Maryland State House; requiring the Commission on Artistic Property to oversee the care and maintenance of the monument; and establishing the Commission on the Ten Comma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB12 | Intro
Sine Die | Adding to the conditions under which an individual who creates a trust may not be considered the settlor of that trust with regard to the individual's interest in the trust; and providing that a creditor may not attach, exercise, reach, or otherwise ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB928 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a testator who is married or in a registered domestic partnership from signing a will in the presence of the testator's spouse or registered domestic partner; prohibiting an individual who witnesses and signs a testator's will from also w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB135 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifying that a communication between an attorney and a client that acts as a fiduciary is subject to the attorney-client privilege even if fiduciary funds are used to compensate the attorney for services rendered to the client.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB110 | Engross
Sine Die | Prioritizing the payment of unpaid child support over certain other claims on an estate of a decedent with insufficient assets to pay all claims in full.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB1025 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that each individual and a certain right holder have the right to authorize the use of the voice or visual likeness of the individual in a digital replica; providing that the right does not expire on the death of the individual and is tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1453 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a vlogger who creates video content that is posted on a social media platform and features a certain minor child to compensate the child under certain circumstances; establishing requirements on social media platforms relating to deleting v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB1029 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing, under certain circumstances, a personal representative to petition the Orphans' Court to interpret a decedent's will in accordance with the decedent's intent as demonstrated by certain extrinsic evidence; establishing a certain rebuttabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB50 | Intro
Sine Die | Adding to the conditions under which an individual who creates a trust may not be considered the settlor of that trust with regard to the individual's interest in the trust; and providing that a creditor may not attach, exercise, reach, or otherwise ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB22 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Fiduciary Adjudication in Maryland to examine and analyze the efficiency, uniformity, and quality of fiduciary adjudication in Maryland and make recommendations; requiring the orphans' courts, circuit courts, regi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB868 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing, under certain circumstances, a personal representative to petition the orphans' court to interpret a decedent's will in accordance with the decedent's intent as demonstrated by certain extrinsic evidence; establishing a certain rebuttabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1407 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that each individual and a certain right holder have the right to authorize the use of the voice or visual likeness of the individual in a digital replica; providing that the right does not expire on the death of the individual and is tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1182 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that the assets of any Methodist Church be held in trust for the United Methodist Church and be subject to the control of the Church; repealing a provision of law providing that the absence of a trust clause in any deed or con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB723 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor to place certain interests into a certain certified blind trust or divest of certain interests within 6 months after taking the oath of office; requiring the Governor to enter into a nonparticipation agreement with the State Et...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB310 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying that a communication between an attorney and a client that acts as a fiduciary is subject to the attorney-client privilege even if fiduciary funds are used to compensate the attorney for services rendered to the client.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB628 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the maximum annual salary of a register of wills may not be more than the salary of a State employee at grade 26, step 20 of the State of Maryland Standard and Bargaining Salary Scale in effect on the day before the register beginning ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB724 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the tax collector in Baltimore City to withhold from tax sale certain property occupied by an heir of a deceased owner of the property; requiring certain property occupied by an heir of a deceased owner of the property to be withheld from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB695 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that certain motor fuel tax rates be adjusted in future years based on growth in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers; prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from imposing or levying a vehicle-miles-traveled...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB625 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the Maryland Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests Act to provide for the disclaimer of nonprobate transfers at death; providing for the creation, revocation, recordation, and effects of a transfer-on-death deed for real property; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB660 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing an interested person to file with the register of wills in a county, rather than the orphans' court, a petition for admission of a copy of an executed will in a probate proceeding; authorizing a register to accept a copy of an executed wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB192 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that certain owner-occupied property be withheld from tax sale; requiring a county or municipal corporation to withhold from tax sale certain property when the taxes consist only of a lien for unpaid water and sewer service; authorizing a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
