---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allegany County - Property Tax Credits - Community Organizations and Lions Center"
description: "Allegany County - Property Tax Credits - Community Organizations and Lions Center"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 592"
citation: "Maryland SB 592 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property - Local", "Allegany County", "Animals", "Museums", "Property Tax", "Tax Credits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edwards"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-02"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b110530-2688-4d0f-91dd-8e40165d0538"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB592&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "d24c8417298c4771c11512dffdf60b2ecdea95eede8f66cc00e98e29cfe72d77"
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 592 (2017) — Allegany County - Property Tax Credits - Community Organizations and Lions Center

## 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/sb0592f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Edwards — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-02** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-24** Hearing canceled
- **2017-02-24** Hearing 3/01 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2017-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {649439/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-09** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-10** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-10** Hearing 3/23 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 (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 693 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b110530-2688-4d0f-91dd-8e40165d0538`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).