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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Property Tax Credit - Surviving Spouse of Veteran"
+description: "Property Tax Credit - Surviving Spouse of Veteran"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 502"
+citation: "Maryland HB 502 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Property Tax", "Spouses", "Tax Credits", "Veterans"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Wilkins"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-26"
+last_action: "2018-04-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81eca185-c3d5-4d05-a8c1-e4c41355aa29"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB502&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "c6cb6708a9fea0df3e46c9fd8c59cea353b666ef0d0f7514fa3e519a096f58f7"
+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 502 (2018) — Property Tax Credit - Surviving Spouse of Veteran
+
+## 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/hb0502f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Wilkins — primary (person)
+- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
+- Ali — cosponsor (person)
+- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
+- Aumann — cosponsor (person)
+- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
+- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
+- Beitzel — cosponsor (person)
+- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
+- Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Ciliberti — cosponsor (person)
+- Cluster — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
+- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
+- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
+- Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
+- Folden — cosponsor (person)
+- Frush — cosponsor (person)
+- Gaines — cosponsor (person)
+- Glass — cosponsor (person)
+- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
+- Healey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
+- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
+- Impallaria — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- Kittleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Knotts — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
+- Long — cosponsor (person)
+- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Malone — cosponsor (person)
+- Mautz — cosponsor (person)
+- McComas — cosponsor (person)
+- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
+- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Otto — cosponsor (person)
+- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — cosponsor (person)
+- Proctor — cosponsor (person)
+- Queen — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Rey — cosponsor (person)
+- Rose — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
+- Sophocleus — cosponsor (person)
+- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Vogt — cosponsor (person)
+- W. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
+- Walker — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-26** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-26** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-22** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-23** Favorable with Amendments {105461/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-23** Floor Amendment {723022/1 (Delegate Metzgar) Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2018-02-23** Special Order until 2/27 (Delegate Walker) Adopted
+- **2018-02-27** Floor Amendment {663722/1 (Delegate A. Miller) Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2018-02-27** Floor Amendment {963929/1 (Delegate Wilson) Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2018-02-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-01** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-02** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-23** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-23** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-23** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-26** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-27** Returned Passed
+- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 309 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/81eca185-c3d5-4d05-a8c1-e4c41355aa29`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+