---
type: "Bill"
title: "Estates and Trusts - Maryland Uniform Transfers to Minors Act - Award of Reasonable and Necessary Expenses"
description: "Estates and Trusts - Maryland Uniform Transfers to Minors Act - Award of Reasonable and Necessary Expenses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 769"
citation: "Maryland HB 769 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Estates and Trusts", "Courts", "Estates and Trusts", "Minors", "Prices", "Reimbursement Rates", "Uniform Laws"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dumais"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-01"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/275eecef-861b-4222-9deb-dd298607f36f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB769&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "e1a015a93b40cf25d77f60d6f600163b1b137391bc5720c4f708f5f8b15f9d08"
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 769 (2018) — Estates and Trusts - Maryland Uniform Transfers to Minors Act - Award of Reasonable and Necessary Expenses

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0769f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dumais — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-01** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {286882/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-14** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-15** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-20** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 298 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/275eecef-861b-4222-9deb-dd298607f36f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).