---
type: "Bill"
title: "Homestead Property Tax Credit Program - Eligibility Awareness"
description: "Homestead Property Tax Credit Program - Eligibility Awareness"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 305"
citation: "Maryland HB 305 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Assessments and Taxation", "Department of", "Notices", "Postal Service", "Property Tax", "Tax Credits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tarlau"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-22"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e49cb6f-845e-41ed-b8b8-643968331d4d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB305&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "beedcc9f63c7ac682e69b0c0cc62b6cea98ec6a8feb28b31402644ba9c860d4d"
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 HB 305 (2018) — Homestead Property Tax Credit Program - Eligibility Awareness

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0305f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tarlau — primary (person)
- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
- Frush — cosponsor (person)
- Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Knotts — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Sophocleus — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-22** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-20** Favorable with Amendments {545468/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-22** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-23** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-19** Hearing canceled
- **2018-03-19** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 297 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e49cb6f-845e-41ed-b8b8-643968331d4d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).