---
type: "Bill"
title: "Estates and Trusts - Vehicle Transfers - Excise Tax and Fee Exemption"
description: "Estates and Trusts - Vehicle Transfers - Excise Tax and Fee Exemption"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 449"
citation: "Maryland SB 449 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Transportation", "Transportation - Generally", "Beneficiaries", "Estates and Trusts", "Excise Tax", "Exemptions", "Fees", "Motor Vehicles", "Titles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kasemeyer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ea3bf603-374d-4c9d-81aa-d3667cfd7e8f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB449&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "7dc355a6794bdbd4fea5cde5e7e4388894a8a5197e78739b3588a36c30047d48"
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 SB 449 (2017) — Estates and Trusts - Vehicle Transfers - Excise Tax and Fee Exemption

## 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/sb/sb0449f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Kasemeyer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-30** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-27** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-03** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-06** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 663 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ea3bf603-374d-4c9d-81aa-d3667cfd7e8f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).