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SB 1423 Wills & trusts; formula clauses referring to federal estate & generation-skipping transfer tax laws.
... notes | add to my profilesSUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Wills and trusts; formula clauses referring to federal estate and generation-skipping transfer tax laws; application. Amends a section added to the Code during the 2010 Session that was designed to address the consequences of the anticipated repeal of the federal estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes with respect to estates and taxable transfers occurring after December 31, 2009, and before January 1, 2011, to address the retroactive reinstatement of such taxes as well as other changes made to federal tax law. The bill provides that the decision by a decedent's personal representative not to have the estate tax apply to a decedent's estate in 2010 does not affect the meaning of formula clauses for calculating transfers or devises based on federal estate or generation-skipping transfer tax law contained in a will or other instrument. The bill also provides that the fiduciaries or beneficiaries of an estate may petition the court to determine how the decedent would want such formula clauses construed and may also enter into a nonjudicial agreement regarding the construction of such clauses. The bill contains an emergency clause and its provisions will be effective upon its passage.
FULL TEXT
- 01/20/11 Senate: Presented and ordered printed with emergency clause 11103739D pdf
- 03/03/11 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1423ER) pdf
- 03/26/11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0679) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/20/11 Senate: Presented and ordered printed with emergency clause 11103739D
- 01/20/11 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/21/11 Senate: Assigned Courts sub: Civil
- 02/07/11 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/11 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/11 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/08/11 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/11 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/11 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/09/11 House: Read first time
- 02/09/11 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/10/11 House: Assigned Courts sub: #2 Civil
- 02/16/11 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/11 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/11 House: Read second time
- 02/24/11 House: Read third time
- 02/24/11 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/11 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/11 House: Reconsideration of House passage agreed to by House
- 02/24/11 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/11 House: VOTE: PASSAGE #2 (99-Y 0-N)
- 03/03/11 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/03/11 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1423ER)
- 03/03/11 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/06/11 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/26/11 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 679 (effective 3/26/11)
- 03/26/11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0679)