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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Renewable Energy Development and Siting (REDS) – Evaluations and Tax and Fee Exemptions"
+description: "Renewable Energy Development and Siting (REDS) – Evaluations and Tax and Fee Exemptions"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 281"
+citation: "Maryland SB 281 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Administration", "Bailey", "Carozza", "Cassilly", "Eckardt", "Edwards", "Gallion", "Hershey", "President", "Ready", "Salling", "Serafini", "Simonaire", "West"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-20"
+last_action: "2020-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/358cfe05-676f-4fc4-b9ae-85ee83e15dd8"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0281?ys=2020RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "978eeb9bb5c7dabac3ef3322729a5a9b91c253e199a2744a85762646da837671"
+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 281 (2020) — Renewable Energy Development and Siting (REDS) – Evaluations and Tax and Fee Exemptions
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Renewable Energy Development and Siting (REDS) – Evaluations and Tax and Fee Exemptions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_544_sb0281t.pdf)
+2. **First - Renewable Energy Development and Siting (REDS) – Evaluations and Tax and Fee Exemptions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0281f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Renewable Energy Development and Siting (REDS) – Evaluations and Tax and Fee Exemptions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0281t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Administration — primary (person)
+- Bailey — primary (person)
+- Carozza — primary (person)
+- Cassilly — primary (person)
+- Eckardt — primary (person)
+- Edwards — primary (person)
+- Gallion — primary (person)
+- Hershey — primary (person)
+- President — primary (person)
+- Ready — primary (person)
+- Salling — primary (person)
+- Serafini — primary (person)
+- Simonaire — primary (person)
+- West — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs and Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-27** Hearing 2/05 at 2:00 p.m. (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs)
+- **2020-01-27** Hearing canceled (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs)
+- **2020-01-27** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs)
+- **2020-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-09** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2020-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-12** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-17** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-17** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
+- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 544 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/358cfe05-676f-4fc4-b9ae-85ee83e15dd8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+