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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: "SB 429"
+citation: "Maryland SB 429 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Property Tax", "Spouses", "Tax Credits", "Veterans"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bates"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-01-25"
+last_action: "2018-04-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d948b601-3a7c-46f7-81b3-9e977a1d8f50"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB429&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "a9b6ed3b86add4c280cd4d4c17f0a7032f1ef3cc9b7ad2b7691c4d7e5deaa3de"
+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 429 (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/sb/sb0429f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bates — primary (person)
+- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
+- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
+- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
+- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hough — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
+- Manno — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+- Ready — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Salling — cosponsor (person)
+- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Waugh — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-25** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-25** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-27** Favorable with Amendments {789534/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-01** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-02** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-05** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-29** Favorable with Amendments {745567/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-30** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-02** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-02** Passed Enrolled
+- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 310 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d948b601-3a7c-46f7-81b3-9e977a1d8f50`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+