---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax Credit – Business Entities – State of Emergency"
description: "Property Tax Credit – Business Entities – State of Emergency"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1137"
citation: "Maryland HB 1137 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kerr"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-05"
last_action: "2021-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5352f167-b5c2-4e16-95cf-7f035e7c6285"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1137?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "cb31a6bb011310ea8f2dea73c381f512de9cbd0d7129ad10602904fd736e5a4d"
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 HB 1137 (2021) — Property Tax Credit – Business Entities – State of Emergency

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Property Tax Credit – Business Entities – State of Emergency** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_210_hb1137t.pdf)
2. **First - Property Tax Credit – Business Entities – State of Emergency** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb1137f.pdf)
3. **Third - Property Tax Credit – Business Entities – State of Emergency** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb1137t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kerr — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-05** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-10** Hearing 2/23 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-03-01** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-03** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-05** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-31** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-31** Second Reading Passed
- **2021-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2021-05-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 210 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5352f167-b5c2-4e16-95cf-7f035e7c6285`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).