---
type: "Bill"
title: "Charles County - Property Tax Credit - Priority Funding Areas"
description: "Charles County - Property Tax Credit - Priority Funding Areas"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 649"
citation: "Maryland HB 649 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property - Local", "Charles County", "Commerce and Business", "Commercial Rehabilitation", "Property Tax", "Tax Credits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles County Delegation"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-01"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd0e7396-2b80-4480-ba8c-e13b708cc744"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB649&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "7b070cca41e9605b572b825245c63d3e92ff825b3e664263ca6ac7967e3469cb"
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 649 (2017) — Charles County - Property Tax Credit - Priority Funding Areas

## 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/hb0649f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Charles County Delegation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-01** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {285062/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **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 85 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dd0e7396-2b80-4480-ba8c-e13b708cc744`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).