---
type: "Bill"
title: "Howard County - Property Tax - Exemption for Personal Property of Business Located in Historic District Ho. Co. 10-17"
description: "Howard County - Property Tax - Exemption for Personal Property of Business Located in Historic District Ho. Co. 10-17"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 566"
citation: "Maryland HB 566 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property - Local", "Commerce and Business", "Historical Matters", "Howard County", "Personal Property", "Property Tax"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howard County Delegation"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79da6249-d20a-43be-8a1f-b0373121b88a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB566&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "07a3e8351116eb9eaeca103621a3db7a9d30eb4ab841752968994a22df2bac6b"
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 566 (2017) — Howard County - Property Tax - Exemption for Personal Property of Business Located in Historic District Ho. Co. 10-17

## 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/hb0566f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Howard County Delegation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-30** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-24** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-27** Hearing canceled
- **2017-03-27** Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 131 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79da6249-d20a-43be-8a1f-b0373121b88a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).