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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Somerset County - Property Tax - Emergency Services Tax"
+description: "Somerset County - Property Tax - Emergency Services Tax"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 719"
+citation: "Maryland SB 719 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Carozza"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-31"
+last_action: "2025-04-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45fcbe83-d7e6-4d35-9b24-6b678e3313de"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0719?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "e328fbaca266e6fcaa8192ed198aa55887ceb0558fbf7049677412e2a67fb7a0"
+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 719 (2025) — Somerset County - Property Tax - Emergency Services Tax
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Somerset County - Property Tax - Emergency Services Tax** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_70_sb0719t.pdf)
+2. **First - Somerset County - Property Tax - Emergency Services Tax** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0719f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Somerset County - Property Tax - Emergency Services Tax** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0719t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **127–6** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **43–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Carozza — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-31** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-03** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-02-24** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-25** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-25** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-02-28** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-03** Hearing 3/18 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
+- **2025-04-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 70 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/45fcbe83-d7e6-4d35-9b24-6b678e3313de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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