SENATE BILL 634

File Code: Estates and Trusts Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 983

Sponsored By:

Senator Stone (Task Force to Examine Maryland's Crime Victims' Rights Laws)

Entitled:

Estates and Trusts - Personal Representatives - Survival Actions

Synopsis:

Providing that, in a survival action, a personal representative may recover administrative costs and attorney's fees for the administration of the decedent's estate and the loss of the decedent's future income during the decedent's life expectancy; and providing that a personal representative may not recover damages to the extent that those damages are recovered in a wrongful death action.

Legislative History

Senate Action

1/31

First Reading Judicial Proceedings

2/3

Hearing 2/5 at 1:00 p.m.

3/3

Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings

House Action

No Action

Sponsored by:

Senator Norman R. Stone, Jr., District 7

Crime Victims' Rights Laws, T. F. to Examine Maryl

Bill indexed under the following Subjects:

ATTORNEYS -see also- LEGAL AID; STATE'S ATTORNEYS

CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS

DAMAGES

ESTATES AND TRUSTS -see also- FIDUCIARIES

FEES -see also- DEVELOPMENT FEES AND TAXES

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES

WRONGFUL DEATH

Bill affects the following Statute:

Estates and Trusts

( 7-401 )

Documents:

Bill Text:

First Reading (PDF), Third Reading, Enrolled

Fiscal Note: Available (PDF)