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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Property Tax Credit - Public Safety Officer - Definition"
+description: "Property Tax Credit - Public Safety Officer - Definition"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 477"
+citation: "Maryland HB 477 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Emergency Medical Services", "Property Tax", "Tax Credits", "Volunteers"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Clark"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-01"
+last_action: "2019-04-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3d46464-a60d-433b-aa95-8377c6b8de54"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB477&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "a7198af4fcbde57d67c0dab696848b313fc29cb69ff9a69b0715f1d3d6d26cad"
+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 477 (2019) — Property Tax Credit - Public Safety Officer - Definition
+
+## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0477f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+- No motion given — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Clark — primary (person)
+- Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Arikan — cosponsor (person)
+- Beitzel — cosponsor (person)
+- Boteler — cosponsor (person)
+- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Corderman — cosponsor (person)
+- Cox — cosponsor (person)
+- Crosby — cosponsor (person)
+- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
+- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
+- Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- Long — cosponsor (person)
+- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Fisher — cosponsor (person)
+- Malone — cosponsor (person)
+- McComas — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pippy — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Wivell — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-01** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-06** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-14** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-15** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-18** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-20** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-29** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-29** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 240 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f3d46464-a60d-433b-aa95-8377c6b8de54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+