---
type: "Bill"
title: "Homestead Property Tax Credit - Notification on Acquisition of Property"
description: "Homestead Property Tax Credit - Notification on Acquisition of Property"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 990"
citation: "Maryland HB 990 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Assessments and Taxation", "Department of", "Notices", "Property Tax", "Real Property", "Tax Credits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McMillan"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-07"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbd948d3-6b39-44eb-93ca-c7b5cc2d7bbd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB990&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "512763bbd02a4f4be7242386fe8b80ccdcba536710ec3c71ea712b1c88983ce0"
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 990 (2018) — Homestead Property Tax Credit - Notification on Acquisition of Property

## 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/hb0990f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McMillan — primary (person)
- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
- Ali — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-07** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {365768/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-16** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 781 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bbd948d3-6b39-44eb-93ca-c7b5cc2d7bbd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).