---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transfer Tax - Transfers by Governmental Entities"
description: "Transfer Tax - Transfers by Governmental Entities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 780"
citation: "Maryland SB 780 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Recordation and Transfer", "Administrative Agencies", "Counties", "Federal Government", "Land Records", "Municipal Corporations", "Transfer Tax"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Waldstreicher"]
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/b1e343f9-38b3-483e-bfca-aac74fe0298f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB780&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "611a74c180064c8aab77bc3e9451edaa939fc1919f8226d7782e1bfbc5d64520"
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 780 (2019) — Transfer Tax - Transfers by Governmental Entities

## 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/sb0780f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Waldstreicher — 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 3/05 at 1:45 p.m.
- **2019-03-12** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-13** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-13** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-15** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-15** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-18** 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
- **2019-04-05** Third Reading Passed (132-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 290 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b1e343f9-38b3-483e-bfca-aac74fe0298f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).