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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Homestead Property Tax Credit Program - Eligibility Awareness"
+description: "Homestead Property Tax Credit Program - Eligibility Awareness"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 305"
+citation: "Maryland HB 305 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Assessments and Taxation", "Department of", "Notices", "Postal Service", "Property Tax", "Tax Credits"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Tarlau"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-22"
+last_action: "2018-04-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e49cb6f-845e-41ed-b8b8-643968331d4d"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB305&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "beedcc9f63c7ac682e69b0c0cc62b6cea98ec6a8feb28b31402644ba9c860d4d"
+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 305 (2018) — Homestead Property Tax Credit Program - Eligibility Awareness
+
+## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0305f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Tarlau — primary (person)
+- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
+- Angel — cosponsor (person)
+- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
+- Barron — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Chang — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
+- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
+- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
+- Frush — cosponsor (person)
+- Gaines — cosponsor (person)
+- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Healey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
+- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
+- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
+- Knotts — cosponsor (person)
+- Korman — cosponsor (person)
+- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
+- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
+- Lam — cosponsor (person)
+- Long — cosponsor (person)
+- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
+- Moon — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
+- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Rose — cosponsor (person)
+- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
+- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+- Sophocleus — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
+- Walker — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-22** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-24** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-20** Favorable with Amendments {545468/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-02-22** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
+- **2018-02-23** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-19** Hearing canceled
+- **2018-03-19** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 297 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e49cb6f-845e-41ed-b8b8-643968331d4d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+