---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sales and Use Tax - Tax-Free Period for Back-to-School Shopping - Sale of Backpacks and Bookbags"
description: "Sales and Use Tax - Tax-Free Period for Back-to-School Shopping - Sale of Backpacks and Bookbags"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 622"
citation: "Maryland SB 622 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Sales and Use", "Education", "Exemptions", "Sales and Use Tax"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eckardt"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b80120c-a07c-46cb-be81-950bc5a44f9f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB622&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "82ee650a46bda05d1e36b4dbfb52f2b575f39103a8b8b8f5df35b5fab9459685"
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 622 (2017) — Sales and Use Tax - Tax-Free Period for Back-to-School Shopping - Sale of Backpacks and Bookbags

## 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/sb0622f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **113–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eckardt — primary (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Hough — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Muse — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Waugh — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-20** Favorable with Amendments {759138/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-21** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-22** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-04** Rereferred to Ways and Means
- **2017-04-04** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-08** Favorable with Amendments {655367/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Floor Committee Amendment {555961/1 Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (113-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 236 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7b80120c-a07c-46cb-be81-950bc5a44f9f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).