---
type: "Bill"
title: "Estates and Trusts - Registers of Wills - Electronic Filing and Signatures"
description: "Estates and Trusts - Registers of Wills - Electronic Filing and Signatures"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 244"
citation: "Maryland HB 244 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Johnson", "Attar", "Bartlett", "Ebersole", "Foley", "Guzzone", "Henson", "Hill", "Lehman", "McCaskill", "Ruth", "S. Johnson", "Stewart", "Taveras", "Terrasa", "Wu", "Ziegler"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-23"
last_action: "2023-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0021cce2-8c9b-4890-b722-3229916f40c7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0244?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "bd6fdd4145471a9dff370216133bf627dc70618b18d00ea2091b241c521aba71"
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 244 (2023) — Estates and Trusts - Registers of Wills - Electronic Filing and Signatures

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Estates and Trusts - Registers of Wills - Electronic Filing and Signatures** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_661_hb0244t.pdf)
2. **First - Estates and Trusts - Registers of Wills - Electronic Filing and Signatures** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0244f.pdf)
3. **Third - Estates and Trusts - Registers of Wills - Electronic Filing and Signatures** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0244t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- A. Johnson — primary (person)
- Attar — primary (person)
- Bartlett — primary (person)
- Ebersole — primary (person)
- Foley — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Henson — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- McCaskill — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Stewart — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- Wu — primary (person)
- Ziegler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-23** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25** Hearing 2/01 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2023-02-20** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-22** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-24** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-02-27** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-05** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-05** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2023-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2023-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 661 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0021cce2-8c9b-4890-b722-3229916f40c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).