Minor tort recovery, options for investment of proceeds, expanded,
and percentage of assets invested in certain money market or
stock funds, limited ........................................................................

Modified estate administration, election by personal
representative, provisions added ..................................................

Power of attorney, presumption as durable power of attorney,
provisions altered ...........................................................................

Probate reform, including increased fees, estate valuation method,
payment of personal representative's commission and attorney's
fees without court approval, increased funeral expense
allowance, expansion of inheritance tax exemptions, and
determination of "small estates", provisions altered ...................

Stock distribution or spin-off of shares of stock of corporation
owned or acquired by distributing corporation, considered
principal for purposes of determining income and principal of
trust .................................................................................................

Trustee of irrevocable life insurance trust, limitation on duty,
provisions added .............................................................................

Ethics - -

Campaign finance violations, civil citations, penalties, statute of
limitations, and jurisdiction, and criminal prosecution and
penalties, provisions altered ..........................................................

Campaign financing, computerization of campaign finance
reports, fund-raising during General Assembly session, lobbyist
fund-raising on behalf of statewide elected officials or
candidates, and reporting attendance at lobbyist special events,
provisions added and altered ........................................................

Commission, State, appropriation to ................................................

Howard County —

Zoning proceeding applicant, disclosure of business dealings
with county executive or county council member, provisions
added ...........................................................................................

Lobbyist gift disclosure requirements, exception for gifts from
lobbyist to member of lobbyist's immediate family .....................

Referral of patients to a health care entity in which practitioner's
immediate family owns an interest, provisions altered ..............

Ethnic Affairs - -

Acknowledgment of Hispanic contributions to American
independence, provisions added ....................................................

Spanish speaking residents of Frederick and Howard Counties,
appropriation for community services to ......................................

Euthanasia SEE Animals; Death
Eviction —

Stay of execution of warrant of restitution because of extreme
weather conditions, restricted to residential property ................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

664	3843
596	3299
619	3475
693	4011
608	3332
607	3331
565	3099
562 3	3069 70
647	3643
101	1520
253	2040
JR1	4355
3	319
692	4010