---
type: "Bill"
title: "Inheritance Tax - Exemption - Evidence of Domestic Partnership"
description: "Inheritance Tax - Exemption - Evidence of Domestic Partnership"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1104"
citation: "Maryland HB 1104 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Miscellaneous", "Domestic Partnerships and Civil Unions", "Exemptions", "Inheritance Tax", "Interest", "Real Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hixson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-09"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87cede1e-0a44-43fb-a02d-24d826d2685a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1104&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "71328080860a7f6c717c9706e2f07da1667320c183ce9234990e8721bf13a794"
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 1104 (2017) — Inheritance Tax - Exemption - Evidence of Domestic Partnership

## 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/hb1104f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **138–2** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hixson — primary (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-09** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {915362/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-16** Third Reading Passed (138-2) `passage`
- **2017-03-17** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-24** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-29** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 503 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/87cede1e-0a44-43fb-a02d-24d826d2685a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).