---
type: "Bill"
title: "Estates - Administration Exemption - Transfer of Motor Vehicle and Boat Titles"
description: "Estates - Administration Exemption - Transfer of Motor Vehicle and Boat Titles"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 292"
citation: "Maryland SB 292 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Estates and Trusts", "Boats and Ships", "Death", "Estates and Trusts", "Marriage", "Motor Vehicles", "Motor Vehicle Administration", "Spouses", "Time", "Titles", "Vital Records"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Norman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-22"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e25c30e1-115f-402f-8316-7dc9212ddf72"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB292&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "a343329cbe88b63a7621748e28ca594b9727934703e5d0bce38794cc2d50ab5c"
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 292 (2018) — Estates - Administration Exemption - Transfer of Motor Vehicle and Boat Titles

## 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/sb/sb0292f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Norman — primary (person)
- Brochin — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-22** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-21** Favorable with Amendments {998679/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-23** Third Reading Passed (42-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-26** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {936987/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-07** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 551 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e25c30e1-115f-402f-8316-7dc9212ddf72`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).