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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Economic Development - Tourism Zones - Designation and Benefits"
+description: "Economic Development - Tourism Zones - Designation and Benefits"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 1281"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1281 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Amprey", "Anderton", "Arentz", "Barnes", "Boafo", "Buckel", "Chisholm", "Ghrist", "Griffith", "Harris", "Hartman", "Hornberger", "Ivey", "Mangione", "McComas", "Otto", "Pippy", "Rose", "Spiegel", "T. Morgan"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-02-09"
+last_action: "2024-04-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c1e1e1b-b812-4640-a1b6-d9df3a1d70ae"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1281?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "1a01d9c400b317442f3d621134c99c784fe3b37b3fcb7820cdab225726d5532a"
+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 1281 (2024) — Economic Development - Tourism Zones - Designation and Benefits
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Economic Development - Tourism Zones - Designation and Benefits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_239_hb1281t.pdf)
+2. **First - Economic Development - Tourism Zones - Designation and Benefits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb1281f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Economic Development - Tourism Zones - Designation and Benefits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb1281t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1281 — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **135–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Amprey — primary (person)
+- Anderton — primary (person)
+- Arentz — primary (person)
+- Barnes — primary (person)
+- Boafo — primary (person)
+- Buckel — primary (person)
+- Chisholm — primary (person)
+- Ghrist — primary (person)
+- Griffith — primary (person)
+- Harris — primary (person)
+- Hartman — primary (person)
+- Hornberger — primary (person)
+- Ivey — primary (person)
+- Mangione — primary (person)
+- McComas — primary (person)
+- Otto — primary (person)
+- Pippy — primary (person)
+- Rose — primary (person)
+- Spiegel — primary (person)
+- T. Morgan — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-02-09** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-09** Hearing 2/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-18** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-25** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-26** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-28** Returned Passed
+- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 239 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c1e1e1b-b812-4640-a1b6-d9df3a1d70ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+