---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax Credit - Disabled or Fallen Law Enforcement Officers and Rescue Workers - Alterations"
description: "Property Tax Credit - Disabled or Fallen Law Enforcement Officers and Rescue Workers - Alterations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 282"
citation: "Maryland SB 282 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property - Local", "Counties", "Disabilities", "Law Enforcement", "Municipal Corporations", "Property Tax", "Rescue Squads", "Spouses", "Tax Credits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ready"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ad23f0c-a90f-43d0-8df4-67798b43de07"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB282&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "d0626d44296a62fbedf1e2bcf024238ae6cedda6e9071b7e7b9db0d7f6aefd4c"
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 282 (2017) — Property Tax Credit - Disabled or Fallen Law Enforcement Officers and Rescue Workers - Alterations

## 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/sb0282f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Ready — primary (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — 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 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {609731/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-21** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 173 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ad23f0c-a90f-43d0-8df4-67798b43de07`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).