---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax Credit - Residential Property Damaged by Natural Disaster"
description: "Property Tax Credit - Residential Property Damaged by Natural Disaster"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 261"
citation: "Maryland SB 261 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Counties", "Damages", "Emergencies", "Housing", "Municipal Corporations", "Property Tax", "Real Property", "Tax Credits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bates"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2023fa6-df21-45da-8b7f-aa29d7d51d5d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB261&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "a45c175ce2afa99d3b36057d775d9d1b2dc8aabd43bb8b61ff1898673131808a"
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 261 (2017) — Property Tax Credit - Residential Property Damaged by Natural Disaster

## 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/sb0261f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Bates — primary (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Kasemeyer — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Young — 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.
- **2017-02-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-09** Favorable with Amendments {469038/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-14** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-15** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-01** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Special Order until 04/07 (Delegate Atterbeary) Adopted
- **2017-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (133-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 745 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a2023fa6-df21-45da-8b7f-aa29d7d51d5d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).