---
type: "Bill"
title: "Task Force to Study Tax Sales in Maryland"
description: "Task Force to Study Tax Sales in Maryland"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 659"
citation: "Maryland HB 659 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Abandoned Property", "Committees and Commissions", "Community Development", "Consumer Protection", "Counties", "Real Property", "Reports", "Revenue and Taxes", "Sunset", "Urban Renewal", "Vagrancy"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Angel"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-01"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df07363d-e3eb-4899-a5c4-1159cd1414bf"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB659&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "c199317aa88438d9d67bb3929f44f36b144ebbe7e638a3b86207a3ff2d00a78d"
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 659 (2017) — Task Force to Study Tax Sales in Maryland

## 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/hb0659f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **136–1** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Angel — primary (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-01** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {305365/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-18** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-24** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable with Amendments {379035/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (136-1) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 615 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/df07363d-e3eb-4899-a5c4-1159cd1414bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).