---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax Credit - Public Safety Officers - Administration"
description: "Property Tax Credit - Public Safety Officers - Administration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 89"
citation: "Maryland HB 89 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Assessments and Taxation", "Department of", "Correctional Officers", "Counties", "Emergency Medical Services", "Fire Protection", "Law Enforcement", "Municipal Corporations", "Property Tax", "Sheriffs", "Tax Credits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-12"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff1e3d85-8a87-44bc-941c-b204b434fe21"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB89&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "18b90ed7dfcb4581555dc5532445f2fe0de9d81bc64f5beec04044aaf299fc1e"
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 89 (2018) — Property Tax Credit - Public Safety Officers - Administration

## 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/hb0089f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Ways and Means Committee (By Request - Departmental - Assessments and Taxation) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-12** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-15** Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-15** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-16** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-16** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-19** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-30** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable with Amendments {609634/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2018-04-05** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 654 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff1e3d85-8a87-44bc-941c-b204b434fe21`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).