Inheritance Tax - Beneficiaries of Limited Means - Installment Payments [HB-245]
Requiring a register of wills to allow an installment payment plan for the inheritance tax to be paid by a certain beneficiary of limited means under certain circumstances and subject to certain limitations; and applying the Act to all decedents dying on or after July 1, 2025.
HB-245: Inheritance Tax - Beneficiaries of Limited Means - Installment Payments
Sponsored by: Rep. Jon Cardin
Hearing 1/23 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/09/2025
Estates and Trusts – Registered Domestic Partnerships [HB-755]
Establishing requirements for the registration and termination of domestic partnerships with the register of wills; repealing provisions on legitimacy and illegitimacy of children and providing for the parentage of a child born or conceived by registered domestic partners; requiring the register of wills to recognize as domestic partnerships relationships established under the laws of other jurisdictions if the laws are substantially similar to the provisions of the Act; etc.
HB-755: Estates and Trusts – Registered Domestic Partnerships
Sponsored by: Rep. Jon Cardin
Referred Rules on 03/29/2023
Estates and Trusts - Registered Domestic Partnerships [SB-792]
Establishing requirements for the registration and termination of domestic partnerships with the register of wills; repealing provisions on legitimacy and illegitimacy of children and providing for the parentage of a child born or conceived by registered domestic partners; requiring the register of wills to recognize as domestic partnerships relationships established under the laws of other jurisdictions if the laws are substantially similar to the provisions of the Act; etc.
SB-792: Estates and Trusts - Registered Domestic Partnerships
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris West
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 647 on 05/16/2023
Inheritance Tax – Perpetual Conservation Easement – Farming Purposes – Exemption [HB-198]
Providing an exemption from the inheritance tax for real property subject to a certain perpetual conservation easement that passes from a decedent to a niece or nephew of the decedent; requiring the recapture of certain inheritance tax under certain circumstances; and applying the Act to decedents dying after December 31, 2017.
Inheritance Tax - Exemption - Nieces and Nephews [SB-510]
Providing an exemption from the inheritance tax for property that passes from a decedent to or for the use of a niece or nephew of the decedent; repealing a certain exemption to the inheritance tax made obsolete by the Act; and applying the Act to decedents dying after June 30, 2019.
SB-510: Inheritance Tax - Exemption - Nieces and Nephews
Sponsored by: Sen. Adelaide Eckardt
Unfavorable Report By Budget And Taxation; Withdrawn on 02/18/2019
Tax Liens - Expiration [SB-484]
Providing that certain tax liens on certain real property or certain personal property terminate 20 years after the date of assessment; increasing, from 4 to 20, the number of years that a lien for unpaid inheritance tax continues under certain circumstances; etc.
SB-484: Tax Liens - Expiration
Sponsored by: Sen. William Ferguson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 225 on 04/30/2019
Code Revision - Estates and Trusts [SB-398]
Revising, restating, and recodifying the laws of this State relating to estates and trusts; clarifying language; making certain technical and stylistic changes; providing for the construction of the Act; and authorizing the publisher of the Annotated Code to make certain corrections in a certain manner.
SB-398: Code Revision - Estates and Trusts
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Miller
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 197 on 04/18/2019
Estates and Trusts - Elective Share of Surviving Spouse [SB-192]
Repealing certain provisions of law relating to a surviving spouse making an election to take a certain share of the net estate of the decedent; providing that the purpose of the Act is to ensure that the surviving spouse is reasonably provided for during the surviving spouse's lifetime; providing that a surviving spouse may take a certain elective share amount of a certain estate subject to election; establishing the priority to be used in determining the sources from which a certain elective share amount is payable; etc.
SB-192: Estates and Trusts - Elective Share of Surviving Spouse
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Vetoed By The Governor (duplicative) on 05/24/2019
Estates and Trusts - Elective Share of Surviving Spouse [HB-99]
Repealing certain provisions of law relating to a surviving spouse making an election to take a certain share of the net estate of the decedent, instead of that designated under the will, to ensure the surviving spouse is reasonably provided for during the surviving spouse's lifetime; providing that a surviving spouse may take a certain elective share amount of a certain estate subject to election; establishing the priority to be used in determining the sources from which a certain elective share amount is payable; etc.
HB-99: Estates and Trusts - Elective Share of Surviving Spouse
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Dumais
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 435 on 05/13/2019
Inheritance Tax - Exemption - Nieces and Nephews [HB-636]
Providing an exemption from the inheritance tax for property that passes from a decedent to or for the use of a niece or nephew of the decedent; repealing a certain exemption to the inheritance tax made obsolete by the Act; and applying the Act to decedents dying after June 30, 2019.
HB-636: Inheritance Tax - Exemption - Nieces and Nephews
Sponsored by: Rep. Haven Shoemaker
Unfavorable Report By Ways And Means; Withdrawn on 02/18/2019
Inheritance Tax - Exemption - Cousins [SB-1089]
Providing an exemption from the inheritance tax for property that passes to a cousin of a decedent if the decedent does not have specified surviving relatives.
SB-1089: Inheritance Tax - Exemption - Cousins
Sponsored by: Sen. Bryan Simonaire
Hearing 3/24 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/24/2016
Comptroller - Taxpayer Protection Act [HB-162]
Altering the definition of "public record" to exclude specified documents about State employees' salaries; authorizing specified employees of the Comptroller's Office to act as police officers when enforcing specified tax laws; requiring a tax collector to impose a penalty on specified paid tax preparers not to exceed 100% of the underpayment of tax resulting from a false return filed with the intent to evade the payment of tax; etc.
HB-162: Comptroller - Taxpayer Protection Act
Sponsored by: Rep.
Favorable With Amendments Report By Judicial Proceedings on 04/11/2016