---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tax Liens - Expiration"
description: "Tax Liens - Expiration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 484"
citation: "Maryland SB 484 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Miscellaneous", "Inheritance Tax", "Liens", "Local Government Mandates", "Personal Property", "Property Tax", "Real Property", "Statutes of Limitation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ferguson and Miller"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ccfdef9-69ca-4c12-892b-40d2790885f9"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB484&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "0f13590f470cc894f63ff45eed49eaecbab527c1b35c13a91158eccac6fe0f3f"
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 484 (2019) — Tax Liens - Expiration

## 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/sb/sb0484f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–1** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ferguson and Miller — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {709030/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-19** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (139-1) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 225 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ccfdef9-69ca-4c12-892b-40d2790885f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).