Maryland House Bill 444 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on May 22 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-05-22 - Approved by the Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]

Altering the determination of the Maryland estate tax under specified circumstances to exclude from the value of the gross estate up to $5,000,000 of the value of qualified agricultural property; providing that the Maryland estate tax on qualified agricultural property may not exceed 5% of the value of specified agricultural property exceeding $5,000,000; providing for the recapture of specified Maryland estate tax under specified circumstances; requiring the Comptroller to adopt specified regulations; etc.

Family Farm Preservation Act of 2012

Del. Kathy Afzali [R]	Del. John Bohanan [D]	Del. Joseph Boteler [R]	Del. Rudolph Cane [D]
Del. Jon Cardin [D]	Del. Galen Clagett [D]	Del. Norman Conway [D]	Del. William Frick [D]
Del. Ronald George [R]	Del. Glen Glass [R]	Sen. Stephen Hershey [R]	Sen. Michael Hough [R]
Del. Carolyn Howard [D]	Del. Jolene Ivey [D]	Del. Jay Jacobs [R]	Del. Sally Jameson [D]
Del. Anne Kaiser [D]	Sen. Ariana Kelly [D]	Del. Susan Krebs [R]	Del. Stephen Lafferty [D]
Del. Mary Love [D]	Del. Eric Luedtke [D]	Del. Susan McComas [R]	Del. Aruna Miller [D]
Del. Peter Murphy [D]	Del. Leroy Myers [R]	Del. Charles Otto [R]	Del. Neil Parrott [R]
Sen. Justin Ready [R]	Del. Justin Ross [D]	Del. Kelly Schulz [R]	Sen. Andrew Serafini [R]
Del. Melvin Stukes [D]	Del. Michael Summers [D]	Del. Frank Turner [D]	Del. Jay Walker [D]

2012-04-05 - Senate - Third Reading Passed (Y: 47 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2012-04-02 - House - Third Reading Passed (Y: 132 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 8) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-05-22		Approved by the Governor
2012-04-05		Third Reading Passed (47-0)
2012-04-04		Second Reading Passed
2012-04-04		Favorable Report Adopted
2012-04-09		Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation
2012-04-07		Re-referred Budget and Taxation
2012-04-01		First Reading Senate Rules
2012-04-06		Returned Passed
2012-04-02		Third Reading Passed (132-0)
2012-04-01		Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2012-04-01		Favorable with Amendments 565666/1 Report Adopted
2012-04-06		Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means
2012-02-03		Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
2012-02-01		First Reading Ways and Means

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Search/Legislation?target=/2012rs/billfile/HB0444.htm
Text	http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/hb/hb0444f.pdf
Text	http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/hb/hb0444t.pdf
Text	http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/chapters_noln/Ch_449_hb0444T.pdf
Roll Call	http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/votes/house/1157.htm
Roll Call	http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/votes/senate/1349.htm