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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: "SB 622"
+citation: "Maryland SB 622 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxes - Sales and Use", "Education", "Exemptions", "Sales and Use Tax"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Eckardt"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-02-03"
+last_action: "2017-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b80120c-a07c-46cb-be81-950bc5a44f9f"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB622&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "82ee650a46bda05d1e36b4dbfb52f2b575f39103a8b8b8f5df35b5fab9459685"
+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 SB 622 (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/sb/sb0622f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Eckardt — primary (person)
+- Bates — cosponsor (person)
+- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hough — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Muse — cosponsor (person)
+- Ready — cosponsor (person)
+- Salling — cosponsor (person)
+- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+- Waugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-03** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-08** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-20** Favorable with Amendments {759138/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-21** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-22** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-04** Rereferred to Ways and Means
+- **2017-04-04** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-08** Favorable with Amendments {655367/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-04-10** Floor Committee Amendment {555961/1 Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (113-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
+- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 236 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7b80120c-a07c-46cb-be81-950bc5a44f9f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+