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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act"
+description: "Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 691"
+citation: "Maryland HB 691 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Allen", "Attar", "Buckel", "Cardin", "Guyton", "McComas", "Pasteur", "Patterson", "Phillips", "Pruski", "Rose", "Taveras", "Williams", "Wims"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-24"
+last_action: "2025-05-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10f1ba81-07ca-4953-9966-7b82dd15c180"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0691?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "abf5c5259aabee2d6198f9f63154ebe833b0858ddcfff746989ff047a3f1d2c9"
+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 691 (2025) — Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_257_hb0691t.pdf)
+2. **First - Tax Relief and Pensions Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0691f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0691t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Acevero — primary (person)
+- Allen — primary (person)
+- Attar — primary (person)
+- Buckel — primary (person)
+- Cardin — primary (person)
+- Guyton — primary (person)
+- McComas — primary (person)
+- Pasteur — primary (person)
+- Patterson — primary (person)
+- Phillips — primary (person)
+- Pruski — primary (person)
+- Rose — primary (person)
+- Taveras — primary (person)
+- Williams — primary (person)
+- Wims — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-24** First Reading Appropriations and Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-08** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations)
+- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-17** Referred Budget and Taxation Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 257 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/10f1ba81-07ca-4953-9966-7b82dd15c180`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+