---
type: "Bill"
title: "Estates and Trusts - Conditions of Disability and Incapacity - Confinement"
description: "Estates and Trusts - Conditions of Disability and Incapacity - Confinement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 81"
citation: "Maryland HB 81 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Estates and Trusts", "Disabilities", "Diseases", "Estates and Trusts", "Health", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Parents and Guardians", "Prisoners", "Substance Abuse"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Morhaim"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-13"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1cc9af8-2483-42a9-bbf9-aee95aca9a63"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB81&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "e5def5c8728adcc1c21be21d421374b86e332d5879635c6d6bfe99bd25745234"
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 81 (2017) — Estates and Trusts - Conditions of Disability and Incapacity - Confinement

## 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/hb0081f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Morhaim — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-13** 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 {666081/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-10** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-13** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 666 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a1cc9af8-2483-42a9-bbf9-aee95aca9a63`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).