---
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).