| MD | HB1420 | Intro
25% | Requiring the register of wills for each county and Baltimore City, in consultation with the Maryland Registers of Wills Association, to offer a method by which an individual without government-issued identification may prove the individual's identit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1453 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1472 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1407 | Intro
25% | 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
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1182 | Intro
25% | 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
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB932 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB310 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB315 | Intro
25% | 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 requiring the Task Force to report its findings and make recommendations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB796 | Intro
25% | 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 $600.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB918 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB928 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB868 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB623 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB695 | Intro
25% | 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
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB756 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a petitioner 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, to effectuate service of process for certain civil actions again...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB625 | Intro
25% | 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
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB604 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a caregiver, family member, or household member from knowingly and willfully obtaining the property of an individual the caregiver, family member, or household member knows or reasonably should know is a vulnerable or senior adult with th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB660 | Intro
25% | 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
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB323 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB146 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB50 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB88 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB27 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB261 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB59 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB228 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
