---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax Credit - Public Safety Officer - Definition"
description: "Property Tax Credit - Public Safety Officer - Definition"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 477"
citation: "Maryland HB 477 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Emergency Medical Services", "Property Tax", "Tax Credits", "Volunteers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clark"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-01"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3d46464-a60d-433b-aa95-8377c6b8de54"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB477&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "a7198af4fcbde57d67c0dab696848b313fc29cb69ff9a69b0715f1d3d6d26cad"
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 477 (2019) — Property Tax Credit - Public Safety Officer - Definition

## 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/hb0477f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- No motion given — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Clark — primary (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Arikan — cosponsor (person)
- Beitzel — cosponsor (person)
- Boteler — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Corderman — cosponsor (person)
- Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Crosby — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pippy — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Wivell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-01** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-14** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-18** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-29** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 240 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f3d46464-a60d-433b-aa95-8377c6b8de54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).