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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Estates and Trusts - Share of Intestate Estate Inherited by Surviving Spouse"
+description: "Estates and Trusts - Share of Intestate Estate Inherited by Surviving Spouse"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 735"
+citation: "Maryland HB 735 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Estates and Trusts", "Beneficiaries", "Death", "Estates and Trusts", "Minors", "Spouses"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Malone"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-02-02"
+last_action: "2017-05-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2b54cd5-bb64-4610-9aad-1757885c595e"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB735&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "754c1d80624262001c34e10b18a447d7d8d05e6d5e37e0193d3102fc1291fa71"
+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 HB 735 (2017) — Estates and Trusts - Share of Intestate Estate Inherited by Surviving Spouse
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0735f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Malone — primary (person)
+- Angel — cosponsor (person)
+- Folden — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
+- Kittleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- McComas — cosponsor (person)
+- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Rose — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- W. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-02** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-03** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-07** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-08** Favorable with Amendments {456981/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-10** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-13** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-07** Returned Passed
+- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 626 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2b54cd5-bb64-4610-9aad-1757885c595e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+