---
type: "Bill"
title: "St. Mary's County - Tax Exemptions - Repeal of Local Provisions"
description: "St. Mary's County - Tax Exemptions - Repeal of Local Provisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 297"
citation: "Maryland SB 297 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Miscellaneous - Local", "Commerce and Business", "Exemptions", "Industry and Technology", "St. Mary's County"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Waugh"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f81031e0-cf44-4293-b440-2e01f2d015e7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB297&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "3fbe4e361d81cb81e34de5147c97b743b7b27537009c159130befe81dc1cf08d"
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 297 (2017) — St. Mary's County - Tax Exemptions - Repeal of Local Provisions

## 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/sb0297f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Waugh — primary (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.
- **2017-02-20** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-23** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-24** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-01** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 120 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f81031e0-cf44-4293-b440-2e01f2d015e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).