---
type: "Bill"
title: "Personal Property Tax - Exemption for Low Assessments"
description: "Personal Property Tax - Exemption for Low Assessments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 90"
citation: "Maryland HB 90 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Assessments", "Exemptions", "Local Government Mandates", "Personal Property", "Property Tax"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-12"
last_action: "2018-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/03c0f7f5-d0df-4c5e-85f6-a9c124a7e3dd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB90&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "af06c83489b1bdb23b4b6a1c2abfa8b7d087fbb841318f8c744f777c8acf30a6"
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 90 (2018) — Personal Property Tax - Exemption for Low Assessments

## 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/hb0090f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **134–0** (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 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-17** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/28 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
- **2018-04-10** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 102 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/03c0f7f5-d0df-4c5e-85f6-a9c124a7e3dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).