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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Property Tax Credit - Retail Service Station Conversions"
+description: "Property Tax Credit - Retail Service Station Conversions"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 161"
+citation: "Maryland HB 161 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Allen", "Behler", "Coley", "Ebersole", "Fair", "Feldmark", "Lehman", "McCaskill", "Miller", "Pena-Melnyk", "Ruth", "Solomon", "Terrasa", "Tomlinson", "Vogel", "Young", "Ziegler"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-09-10"
+last_action: "2026-05-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/caf92648-3a6a-4b94-a15f-5b9a712a8362"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0161?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "88c5ef1c442dbb67dbfaffb7912e2a16d03287c616650fa159fc4f74bdcb5a1c"
+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 161 (2026) — Property Tax Credit - Retail Service Station Conversions
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Property Tax Credit - Retail Service Station Conversions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_643_hb0161t.pdf)
+2. **First - Property Tax Credit - Retail Service Station Conversions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0161f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Property Tax Credit - Retail Service Station Conversions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0161t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **129–7** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Allen — primary (person)
+- Behler — primary (person)
+- Coley — primary (person)
+- Ebersole — primary (person)
+- Fair — primary (person)
+- Feldmark — primary (person)
+- Lehman — primary (person)
+- McCaskill — primary (person)
+- Miller — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- Ruth — primary (person)
+- Solomon — primary (person)
+- Terrasa — primary (person)
+- Tomlinson — primary (person)
+- Vogel — primary (person)
+- Young — primary (person)
+- Ziegler — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-09-10** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2026-01-14** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-13** Hearing 1/20 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-10** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-03-12** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-25** Hearing 3/31 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-04-03** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-03** Second Reading Passed
+- **2026-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-08** Returned Passed
+- **2026-05-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 643 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/caf92648-3a6a-4b94-a15f-5b9a712a8362`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+