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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: "SB 278"
+citation: "Maryland SB 278 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bailey", "Benson", "Corderman", "Gallion", "Guzzone", "Hester", "Hettleman", "Jennings", "King", "Lewis Young", "M. Jackson", "Mautz", "McCray", "Rosapepe", "Salling", "Simonaire", "Zucker"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-10"
+last_action: "2025-05-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f551ee6-a915-4a43-b21f-ca43f84d9f97"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0278?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "e5a3163776ae0b9f69c7a1177991d2c2adf97f15426046bfcdd4643ad00c1edf"
+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 278 (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_258_sb0278t.pdf)
+2. **First - Tax Relief and Pensions Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0278f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0278t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bailey — primary (person)
+- Benson — primary (person)
+- Corderman — primary (person)
+- Gallion — primary (person)
+- Guzzone — primary (person)
+- Hester — primary (person)
+- Hettleman — primary (person)
+- Jennings — primary (person)
+- King — primary (person)
+- Lewis Young — primary (person)
+- M. Jackson — primary (person)
+- Mautz — primary (person)
+- McCray — primary (person)
+- Rosapepe — primary (person)
+- Salling — primary (person)
+- Simonaire — primary (person)
+- Zucker — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-10** First Reading Budget and Taxation and Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-15** Hearing 1/29 at 10:30 a.m. (Budget and Taxation)
+- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-13** Floor Amendment {
+- **2025-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-15** Referred Appropriations Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations)
+- **2025-04-04** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 258 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f551ee6-a915-4a43-b21f-ca43f84d9f97`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+