---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allegany County - Property Tax Credit - Cumberland Economic Development Corporation"
description: "Allegany County - Property Tax Credit - Cumberland Economic Development Corporation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 243"
citation: "Maryland HB 243 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property - Local", "Allegany County", "Commerce and Business", "Laws and Ordinances", "Municipal Corporations", "Property Tax", "Tax Credits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allegany County Delegation"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-24"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4c9b218-2ffe-4a1e-a097-dcd745373891"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB243&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "0bb267a4ebf462ffa55e2f1b682fc5540a5b573f045e2b239bf5d2fc22e410e7"
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 243 (2019) — Allegany County - Property Tax Credit - Cumberland Economic Development Corporation

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0243f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- No motion given — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Allegany County Delegation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-24** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-24** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-07** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-08** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-12** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-12** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-15** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-22** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-25** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-26** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 117 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c4c9b218-2ffe-4a1e-a097-dcd745373891`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).