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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Estates and Trusts - Closed Estates - Subsequent Discovery of Check"
+description: "Estates and Trusts - Closed Estates - Subsequent Discovery of Check"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 543"
+citation: "Maryland HB 543 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Arikan", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "C. Watson", "Cardin", "Charles", "Cullison", "Forbes", "Henson", "Hettleman", "Jalisi", "Johnson", "Kipke", "Pena-Melnyk", "Rosenberg"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2020-01-27"
+last_action: "2020-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3b7e5339-ac40-4884-8c32-462719d5380a"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0543?ys=2020RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "2f3f538ff45ed6adb1d6c446ac5422cf1c11f440eaab3e6720fce65696237d8b"
+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 543 (2020) — Estates and Trusts - Closed Estates - Subsequent Discovery of Check
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Estates and Trusts - Closed Estates - Subsequent Discovery of Check** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_239_hb0543t.pdf)
+2. **First - Estates and Trusts - Closed Estates - Subsequent Discovery of Check** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0543f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Estates and Trusts - Closed Estates - Subsequent Discovery of Check** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0543t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Arikan — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- C. Watson — primary (person)
+- Cardin — primary (person)
+- Charles — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Forbes — primary (person)
+- Henson — primary (person)
+- Hettleman — primary (person)
+- Jalisi — primary (person)
+- Johnson — primary (person)
+- Kipke — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-27** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-28** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2020-02-24** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-25** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-25** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2020-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-02-28** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-14** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-14** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-15** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-16** Returned Passed
+- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 239 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3b7e5339-ac40-4884-8c32-462719d5380a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+