---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax Credit - Elderly Individuals - Eligibility"
description: "Property Tax Credit - Elderly Individuals - Eligibility"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 654"
citation: "Maryland SB 654 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Baltimore City", "Counties", "Elderly Persons", "Laws and Ordinances", "Municipal Corporations", "Property Tax", "Residency", "Tax Credits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hester"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40c48a0b-e19c-4214-a314-102da333eed3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB654&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "c8c6fb085d105a0bc439a21094be9f3122034678ed5c613def866bcf09320d7c"
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 654 (2019) — Property Tax Credit - Elderly Individuals - Eligibility

## 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/sb0654f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hester — primary (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Elfreth — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (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.
- **2019-02-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-28** Favorable with Amendments {479634/2 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-28** Floor Amendment {863521/1 (Senator Zucker) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-04** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-05** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** Hearing 3/19 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
- **2019-04-05** Third Reading Passed (132-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 333 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/40c48a0b-e19c-4214-a314-102da333eed3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).