---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax - Credit for Retired Military Service Members - Eligibility"
description: "Property Tax - Credit for Retired Military Service Members - Eligibility"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1234"
citation: "Maryland HB 1234 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Property Tax", "Retirement Systems", "Tax Credits", "Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wilkins"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bcd1ff83-f206-4c45-a39c-ed2f53e31568"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1234&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "d2a25078f768a919bfdbf8e50b85385bb7f29e05de2b79c279cec70276904979"
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 1234 (2017) — Property Tax - Credit for Retired Military Service Members - Eligibility

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1234f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Wilkins — primary (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-10** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {135861/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (132-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** Reassigned to Budget and Taxation
- **2017-03-24** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-05** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-06** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 184 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bcd1ff83-f206-4c45-a39c-ed2f53e31568`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).