---
type: "Bill"
title: "Task Force to Study Tax Sales in Maryland"
description: "Task Force to Study Tax Sales in Maryland"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 823"
citation: "Maryland SB 823 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Abandoned Property", "Committees and Commissions", "Community Development", "Consumer Protection", "Counties", "Real Property", "Reports", "Revenue and Taxes", "Sunset", "Urban Renewal", "Vagrancy"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eckardt and Ferguson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b3fd5f8-a5b0-45fe-bf4a-9982bb101509"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB823&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "6763e5052ba51a4e30721351fd04671925dc6c0c637b991f8aa7295eb688e59b"
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 823 (2017) — Task Force to Study Tax Sales in Maryland

## 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/sb0823f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eckardt and Ferguson — primary (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 3/08 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 {229733/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-21** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `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.
- **2017-04-07** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Favorable with Amendments {565262/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 616 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b3fd5f8-a5b0-45fe-bf4a-9982bb101509`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).