---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Trust Act - Division or Consolidation of Trust"
description: "Maryland Trust Act - Division or Consolidation of Trust"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 932"
citation: "Maryland HB 932 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Estates and Trusts", "Beneficiaries", "Courts", "Estates and Trusts", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Johnson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/971d6c24-da36-4a59-adb5-a2afc1b71d4a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB932&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "d274f947f97a7595a3c20736d6c861ee32e21f32451b9e6b5903e0f9990ba404"
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 932 (2019) — Maryland Trust Act - Division or Consolidation of Trust

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0932f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Johnson — primary (person)
- Arikan — cosponsor (person)
- Bagnall — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Charles — cosponsor (person)
- Chisholm — cosponsor (person)
- Crosby — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {646583/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-16** Third Reading Passed (133-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-18** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 498 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/971d6c24-da36-4a59-adb5-a2afc1b71d4a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).