---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax - Municipal Corporations - Electricity Generation Facilities - Negotiated Payments in Lieu of Taxes"
description: "Property Tax - Municipal Corporations - Electricity Generation Facilities - Negotiated Payments in Lieu of Taxes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 1251"
citation: "Maryland SB 1251 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Contracts", "Emergency Bills", "Energy Matters", "Industry and Technology", "Municipal Corporations", "Prices", "Property Tax", "Utilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caroline County Senators"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-05"
last_action: "2018-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/505c0386-03a4-40ba-b117-d44caa4fa792"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB1251&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "05527ad34fbc63ef1fade2bed7c868468bdf1cc12cc0a4bf10d4e2cca888c6c1"
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 1251 (2018) — Property Tax - Municipal Corporations - Electricity Generation Facilities - Negotiated Payments in Lieu of Taxes

## 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/sb1251f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Caroline County Senators — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-05** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-08** Rereferred to Budget and Taxation
- **2018-03-09** Hearing 3/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-14** Hearing canceled
- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/15 at 1:45 p.m.
- **2018-03-16** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-20** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-20** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-02** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-03** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-10** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 69 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/505c0386-03a4-40ba-b117-d44caa4fa792`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).