---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax - Public Utilities - Assessment Apportionment"
description: "Property Tax - Public Utilities - Assessment Apportionment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 98"
citation: "Maryland SB 98 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Assessments", "Assessments and Taxation", "Department of", "Counties", "Municipal Corporations", "Property Tax", "Rules and Regulations", "Utilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-10-11"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/344b985c-f79d-4a22-89c8-c2eca85b3d37"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB98&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "51ad505b55b0443de68417e7c1b8171c9f613b00dc45c285417857fed0c4fe98"
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 98 (2018) — Property Tax - Public Utilities - Assessment Apportionment

## 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/sb0098f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2017-10-11** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-10** Hearing 1/24 at 2:15 p.m.
- **2018-01-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-30** Favorable with Amendments {339230/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-30** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-01** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-02** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-05** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-04** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-07** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 655 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/344b985c-f79d-4a22-89c8-c2eca85b3d37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).