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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Property Tax - Payment in Lieu of Taxes Agreements - Broadband Service Providers"
+description: "Property Tax - Payment in Lieu of Taxes Agreements - Broadband Service Providers"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 774"
+citation: "Maryland SB 774 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hershey", "Zucker"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-31"
+last_action: "2025-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c6bd657-3832-41a4-8fba-3957448b5077"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0774?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "2e1b8f616510c210f3be1e7349a320add1a5a9b5b68f0bedaf43dedbfcea73ee"
+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 774 (2025) — Property Tax - Payment in Lieu of Taxes Agreements - Broadband Service Providers
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Property Tax - Payment in Lieu of Taxes Agreements - Broadband Service Providers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_208_sb0774t.pdf)
+2. **First - Property Tax - Valuation of Operating Property of Rural Broadband Service Providers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0774f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Property Tax - Payment in Lieu of Taxes Agreements - Broadband Service Providers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0774t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **137–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hershey — primary (person)
+- Zucker — 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 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-02-14** Hearing canceled
+- **2025-02-14** Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-02-17** Hearing canceled
+- **2025-02-17** Hearing 2/26 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-13** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-17** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-25** Hearing canceled
+- **2025-03-25** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-26** Hearing canceled
+- **2025-03-26** Hearing 3/26 at 2:15 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
+- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 208 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c6bd657-3832-41a4-8fba-3957448b5077`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+