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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Tax Sales – Homeowner Protections"
+description: "Tax Sales – Homeowner Protections"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 952"
+citation: "Maryland SB 952 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Assessments and Taxation", "Department of", "Electronic Government", "Liens", "Notices", "Real Property", "Sewage", "Tax Sales", "Water"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Eckardt and Ferguson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-05"
+last_action: "2018-04-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/adf47f22-a333-4403-83b9-e848a1be4ebc"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB952&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "0c84edf84e62079fc38ab7677d2339863f4c4749a54c309b2c06310a3180ce0e"
+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 952 (2018) — Tax Sales – Homeowner Protections
+
+## 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/sb0952f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Eckardt and Ferguson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-05** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-07** Hearing 3/09 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-06** Hearing canceled
+- **2018-03-06** Hearing 3/08 at 2:15 p.m.
+- **2018-03-07** Hearing canceled
+- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/08 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {959935/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-20** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-20** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-29** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-30** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-02** Returned Passed
+- **2018-04-10** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 59 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/adf47f22-a333-4403-83b9-e848a1be4ebc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+