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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Property Tax - Credit for Retired Military Service Members - Eligibility"
+description: "Property Tax - Credit for Retired Military Service Members - Eligibility"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 1234"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1234 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Property Tax", "Retirement Systems", "Tax Credits", "Veterans"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Wilkins"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-02-10"
+last_action: "2017-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bcd1ff83-f206-4c45-a39c-ed2f53e31568"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1234&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "d2a25078f768a919bfdbf8e50b85385bb7f29e05de2b79c279cec70276904979"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
+---
+
+# Maryland HB 1234 (2017) — Property Tax - Credit for Retired Military Service Members - Eligibility
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1234f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Wilkins — primary (person)
+- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
+- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
+- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
+- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
+- Long — cosponsor (person)
+- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Rose — cosponsor (person)
+- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Walker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-10** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-10** Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {135861/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (132-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-20** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-20** Reassigned to Budget and Taxation
+- **2017-03-24** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-05** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-05** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-06** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
+- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 184 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bcd1ff83-f206-4c45-a39c-ed2f53e31568`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+