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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Sales and Use Tax - Tax-Free Period for Back-to-School Shopping - Sale of Backpacks and Bookbags"
+description: "Sales and Use Tax - Tax-Free Period for Back-to-School Shopping - Sale of Backpacks and Bookbags"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 530"
+citation: "Maryland HB 530 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxes - Sales and Use", "Education", "Exemptions", "Sales and Use Tax"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["M. Washington"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2017-01-30"
+last_action: "2017-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd593672-f995-4b71-8471-18947b19e8eb"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB530&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "b2429f366d4d54b2498a5702e29adee44d3aecafc57908ae89e13897f1ad3278"
+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 530 (2017) — Sales and Use Tax - Tax-Free Period for Back-to-School Shopping - Sale of Backpacks and Bookbags
+
+## 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/hb0530f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **141–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- M. Washington — primary (person)
+- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
+- Ali — 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)
+- 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)
+- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-30** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {865865/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-17** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-20** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-24** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-04** Favorable with Amendments {839636/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-07** House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2017-04-07** House Requests Senate Recede
+- **2017-04-07** Conference Committee Appointed
+- **2017-04-07** Delegates Ebersole, Walker, and Reilly
+- **2017-04-10** Senate Refuses to Recede
+- **2017-04-10** Conference Committee Appointed
+- **2017-04-10** Senators Eckardt, McFadden, and Currie
+- **2017-04-10** Conference Committee Report Adopted
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (141-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Conference Committee Report Adopted
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
+- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 237 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bd593672-f995-4b71-8471-18947b19e8eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+