---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax Credit - 9-1-1 Public Safety Telecommunicators"
description: "Property Tax Credit - 9-1-1 Public Safety Telecommunicators"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 1053"
citation: "Maryland SB 1053 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety", "Higher Education", "Taxes - Property - Local", "Assessments and Taxation", "Department of", "Counties", "Death", "Emergencies", "Municipal Corporations", "Property Tax", "Public Employees", "Safety", "Scholarships and Student Financial Aid", "Tax Credits", "Telecommunications and Information Technology", "Telephones", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kagan"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-05"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d28ab413-82df-4369-970e-06ef8cdf7d5b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB1053&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "f0195466098e15cd0cd857505b28e745118ad8214d59f0d128e82ac84c08cbb3"
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 1053 (2018) — Property Tax Credit - 9-1-1 Public Safety Telecommunicators

## 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/sb/sb1053f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kagan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-05** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 3/13 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 {949730/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-03** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-06** Rereferred to Ways and Means
- **2018-04-06** Hearing 4/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-09** Favorable with Amendments {125364/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (139-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 735 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d28ab413-82df-4369-970e-06ef8cdf7d5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).