---
type: "Bill"
title: "Anne Arundel County - Property Tax - Credit for Seniors of Limited Income"
description: "Anne Arundel County - Property Tax - Credit for Seniors of Limited Income"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 251"
citation: "Maryland SB 251 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property - Local", "Anne Arundel County", "Elderly Persons", "Property Tax", "Real Property", "Salaries and Compensation", "Tax Credits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Simonaire"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cafb7a92-0092-4c18-a45e-7ff10ea953a2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB251&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "950d312d5ee954255375b82c453f64025be453c48430e0fa0d4563733e29567e"
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 SB 251 (2017) — Anne Arundel County - Property Tax - Credit for Seniors of Limited Income

## 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/sb/sb0251f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Simonaire — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-20** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {669532/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Floor Amendment {683221/1 (Senator Astle) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-16** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-16** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 59 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cafb7a92-0092-4c18-a45e-7ff10ea953a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).