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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Local Government - Accommodations Intermediaries - Hotel Rental Tax - Collection by Comptroller and Alterations"
+description: "Local Government - Accommodations Intermediaries - Hotel Rental Tax - Collection by Comptroller and Alterations"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 979"
+citation: "Maryland SB 979 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Guzzone"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-02-03"
+last_action: "2025-05-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/437777b4-0993-496a-a5c6-53cb81ce0daa"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0979?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "e8c2e4cc2c4d1cb21f33007885e25488f284fe1442c92d38f2ba50c1c956e1a1"
+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 979 (2025) — Local Government - Accommodations Intermediaries - Hotel Rental Tax - Collection by Comptroller and Alterations
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Local Government - Accommodations Intermediaries - Hotel Rental Tax - Collection by Comptroller and Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_638_sb0979t.pdf)
+2. **First - Local Government - Accommodations Intermediaries - Hotel Rental Tax Collection by Comptroller** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0979f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Local Government - Accommodations Intermediaries - Hotel Rental Tax - Collection by Comptroller and Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0979t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- FLA Del. Hutchinson /813124/1 — **37–100** (fail) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–1** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **119–20** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Guzzone — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-03** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-05** Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-28** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-28** Motion Laid Over (Senator Zucker) Adopted
+- **2025-04-01** Favorable with Amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-01** Committee Amendment {
+- **2025-04-01** Substitute Committee Amendment {
+- **2025-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-02** Referred Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Rereferred to Ways and Means
+- **2025-04-05** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-07** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-04-07** Floor Amendment {
+- **2025-04-07** Floor Amendment {
+- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 638 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/437777b4-0993-496a-a5c6-53cb81ce0daa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+