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type: "Bill"
title: "Estates and Trusts - Administration of Estates - Waiver of Fees - Required"
description: "Estates and Trusts - Administration of Estates - Waiver of Fees - Required"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 261"
citation: "Maryland SB 261 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Estates and Trusts", "Estates and Trusts", "Fees", "Liens", "Property Tax", "Real Property", "Registers of Wills", "Salaries and Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ferguson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-25"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f8414d6-1b3f-453d-a06d-43bcd2a1a303"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB261&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "fecbf6dfa9a3bb7ef15f07a916dae37a019be274940757d6101235819fa82e0a"
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 261 (2019) — Estates and Trusts - Administration of Estates - Waiver of Fees - Required
## 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/sb0261f.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1390** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **416** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ferguson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-25** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-01-30** Hearing canceled
- **2019-01-30** Hearing 2/13 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-11** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-14** Third Reading Passed (41-6) `passage`
- **2019-03-14** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-16** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-28** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 224 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f8414d6-1b3f-453d-a06d-43bcd2a1a303`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).