republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2023/hb-244.md

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Bill	Estates and Trusts - Registers of Wills - Electronic Filing and Signatures	Estates and Trusts - Registers of Wills - Electronic Filing and Signatures	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2023	HB 244	Maryland HB 244 (2023)	bill		enacted	A. Johnson Attar Bartlett Ebersole Foley Guzzone Henson Hill Lehman McCaskill Ruth S. Johnson Stewart Taveras Terrasa Wu Ziegler	3	12	0	2023-01-23	2023-05-16	openstates	ocd-bill/0021cce2-8c9b-4890-b722-3229916f40c7	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0244?ys=2023RS&search=True	bd6fdd4145471a9dff370216133bf627dc70618b18d00ea2091b241c521aba71	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. First - Estates and Trusts - Registers of Wills - Electronic Filing and Signatures (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Estates and Trusts - Registers of Wills - Electronic Filing and Signatures (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/0021cce2-8c9b-4890-b722-3229916f40c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).