---
type: "Bill"
title: "Baltimore City - Tax Sales of Real Property - Water Liens (Water Taxpayer Protection Act of 2019)"
description: "Baltimore City - Tax Sales of Real Property - Water Liens (Water Taxpayer Protection Act of 2019)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 96"
citation: "Maryland SB 96 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Miscellaneous - Local", "Counties - Local Laws", "Baltimore City", "Judgments", "Liens", "Places of Worship", "Real Property", "Sewage", "Sunset", "Tax Sales", "Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Washington"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-14"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f0962c3-b9f9-453a-9b75-dea12cad2fd3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB96&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "2ff848735f8cd1acf284c9467972b283d546969bbc67dcadf9d71c596c99b1ce"
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 96 (2019) — Baltimore City - Tax Sales of Real Property - Water Liens (Water Taxpayer Protection Act of 2019)

## 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/sb0096f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Washington — primary (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-14** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-15** Hearing 1/30 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-28** Favorable with Amendments {529233/1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-28** Recommitted to Budget and Taxation (Senator Ferguson)
- **2019-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {529233/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **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.
- **2019-03-28** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 320 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f0962c3-b9f9-453a-9b75-dea12cad2fd3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).