---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax Credit - Disabled Military Personnel and Surviving Spouses"
description: "Property Tax Credit - Disabled Military Personnel and Surviving Spouses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 700"
citation: "Maryland SB 700 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edwards", "Elfreth", "Feldman", "Guzzone", "Kagan", "King", "Kramer", "Lee", "Peters", "Salling", "Smith", "Waldstreicher", "Zucker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-03"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b998f91-b155-47cc-a369-c775c290773d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0700?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "6d4757264593ed063114d92cf9d36fe14fd2b8afd40e2e61c1402879de8d4aa1"
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 700 (2020) — Property Tax Credit - Disabled Military Personnel and Surviving Spouses

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Property Tax Credit - Disabled Military Personnel and Surviving Spouses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_642_sb0700t.pdf)
2. **First - Property Tax Credit - Disabled Military Personnel and Surviving Spouses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0700f.pdf)
3. **Third - Property Tax Credit - Disabled Military Personnel and Surviving Spouses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0700t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Edwards — primary (person)
- Elfreth — primary (person)
- Feldman — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Kagan — primary (person)
- King — primary (person)
- Kramer — primary (person)
- Lee — primary (person)
- Peters — primary (person)
- Salling — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
- Zucker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-03** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-06** Hearing 2/19 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2020-02-10** Hearing canceled
- **2020-02-10** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-02-24** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-25** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-25** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-02-28** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Hearing 3/17 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-14** Hearing canceled
- **2020-03-15** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-15** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 642 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b998f91-b155-47cc-a369-c775c290773d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).