---
type: "Bill"
title: "Code Revision - Estates and Trusts"
description: "Code Revision - Estates and Trusts"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 398"
citation: "Maryland SB 398 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Estates and Trusts", "Estates and Trusts", "Estate Tax", "Fiduciaries", "Inheritance Tax", "Orphans' Court", "Personal Representatives", "Power of Attorney", "Registers of Wills"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["The President (By Request - Department of Legislative Services - Code Revision)"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-31"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa284a64-315a-489b-a7df-44432b3c2c66"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB398&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "5327527c47f31a5932ac927fef03e49eae9abd7ed97cc7c95a3dd56939c9d5e9"
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 398 (2019) — Code Revision - Estates and Trusts

## 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/sb/sb0398f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **130–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- The President (By Request - Department of Legislative Services - Code Revision) — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-31** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Hearing 2/19 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Favorable with Amendments {738979/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-07** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-21** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-25** Third Reading Passed (130-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-26** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 197 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fa284a64-315a-489b-a7df-44432b3c2c66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).