---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wills - Execution of Wills - Witnesses and Wills Executed Outside the State"
description: "Wills - Execution of Wills - Witnesses and Wills Executed Outside the State"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1140"
citation: "Maryland HB 1140 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Estates and Trusts", "Electronic Communication", "Estates and Trusts", "Interstate Affairs", "Witnesses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chisholm"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2da6c248-e943-4383-8ecc-802752b61b30"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1140&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "3cb6d18b3189339fbeb8148e1ff4fce19e1667fa95a929f76b70084f9a39b106"
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 1140 (2019) — Wills - Execution of Wills - Witnesses and Wills Executed Outside the State

## 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/hb1140f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** 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 {596087/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-18** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-21** Hearing 3/27 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-25** Hearing canceled
- **2019-04-04** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 322 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2da6c248-e943-4383-8ecc-802752b61b30`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).