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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Estates and Trusts - Elective Share of Surviving Spouse"
+description: "Estates and Trusts - Elective Share of Surviving Spouse"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 99"
+citation: "Maryland HB 99 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Estates and Trusts", "Age of Majority", "Attorneys' Fees", "Beneficiaries", "Circuit Courts", "Contracts", "Counties", "Courts", "Death", "Disabilities", "Disclosure", "Divorce", "Estates and Trusts", "Estate Tax", "Fiduciaries", "Forms", "Inheritance Tax", "Insurance", "Jurisdiction", "Minors", "Notices", "Orphans' Court", "Parents and Guardians", "Personal Property", "Personal Representatives", "Petitions", "Power of Attorney", "Real Property", "Salaries and Compensation", "Spouses", "Time"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dumais"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-01-18"
+last_action: "2019-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/166bd97c-42f0-4d0b-a407-5e2a3f7df6f0"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB99&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "8a7d2a692e08d9822cac6ab67887c3904c0a91fe16e4008304acfea6cb384d12"
+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 99 (2019) — Estates and Trusts - Elective Share of 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0099f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **141–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dumais — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-18** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-23** Hearing 2/05 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2019-02-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-20** Favorable with Amendments {786182/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-02-22** Third Reading Passed (141-0) `passage`
+- **2019-02-25** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-05** Favorable with Amendments {758573/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-08** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-08** Passed Enrolled
+- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 435 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/166bd97c-42f0-4d0b-a407-5e2a3f7df6f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+