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Bill	Estates and Trusts - Contesting Validity of Revocable Trust - Limitation	Estates and Trusts - Contesting Validity of Revocable Trust - Limitation	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2018	HB 444	Maryland HB 444 (2018)	bill	Estates and Trusts Civil Actions Estates and Trusts Time	enacted	West and Kelly	1	13	2	2018-01-25	2018-04-24	openstates	ocd-bill/a2de43d2-ce7d-406d-bc66-f5648a67cc0b	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB444&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs	c30f70e1b438cfd1487056a5d35b20fd410f04cfcda886def8eb342ef5b6db59	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 444 (2018) — Estates and Trusts - Contesting Validity of Revocable Trust - Limitation

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• West and Kelly — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-25 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2018-01-31 Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-02-27 Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-02-28 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-02-28 Second Reading Passed
• 2018-03-02 Third Reading Passed (138-0) passage
• 2018-03-05 First Reading Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
• 2018-03-30 Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-30 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-30 Second Reading Passed
• 2018-04-02 Third Reading Passed (46-0) passage
• 2018-04-03 Returned Passed
• 2018-04-24 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 256 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a2de43d2-ce7d-406d-bc66-f5648a67cc0b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).