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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "County Tax Fairness Act"
+description: "County Tax Fairness Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 621"
+citation: "Maryland HB 621 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Barve", "Carr", "Charkoudian", "Crutchfield", "Cullison", "Dumais", "Fraser-Hidalgo", "Gilchrist", "Kaiser", "Kelly", "Korman", "Lopez", "Love", "Luedtke", "Moon", "Palakovich Carr", "Qi", "Queen", "Reznik", "Shetty", "Solomon", "Stewart", "Wilkins"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-29"
+last_action: "2020-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b631ce9-2976-4982-9a47-ce55d57ea17d"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0621?ys=2020RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "f48d47a127659286e9d3a26b858ea925cf01d40df1219818f4bfcc03941f5385"
+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 621 (2020) — County Tax Fairness Act
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - County Tax Fairness Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_632_hb0621t.pdf)
+2. **First - County Tax Fairness Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0621f.pdf)
+3. **Third - County Tax Fairness Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0621t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **128–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Acevero — primary (person)
+- Barve — primary (person)
+- Carr — primary (person)
+- Charkoudian — primary (person)
+- Crutchfield — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Dumais — primary (person)
+- Fraser-Hidalgo — primary (person)
+- Gilchrist — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kelly — primary (person)
+- Korman — primary (person)
+- Lopez — primary (person)
+- Love — primary (person)
+- Luedtke — primary (person)
+- Moon — primary (person)
+- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
+- Qi — primary (person)
+- Queen — primary (person)
+- Reznik — primary (person)
+- Shetty — primary (person)
+- Solomon — primary (person)
+- Stewart — primary (person)
+- Wilkins — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-29** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-31** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2020-03-10** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-12** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-15** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-16** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-16** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-16** Second Reading Passed
+- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-17** Returned Passed
+- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 632 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b631ce9-2976-4982-9a47-ce55d57ea17d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+