---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tax Sales – Owner–Occupied Residential Property"
description: "Tax Sales – Owner–Occupied Residential Property"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 252"
citation: "Maryland HB 252 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arikan", "Long"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-09-01"
last_action: "2021-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87862770-f36d-4e9f-a9db-97b132abc779"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0252?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e040bf572e9c00994301ebfb5dd80b46adf4b1dc74f129b7fb84ab2e6cfd008c"
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 252 (2021) — Tax Sales – Owner–Occupied Residential Property

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Tax Sales – Owner–Occupied Residential Property** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_75_hb0252t.pdf)
2. **First - Tax Sales – Owner–Occupied Residential Property** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0252f.pdf)
3. **Third - Tax Sales – Owner–Occupied Residential Property** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0252t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Arikan — primary (person)
- Long — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-09-01** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-13** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2020-12-22** Hearing 1/19 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-03-05** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-09** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-11** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **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
- **2021-04-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 75 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/87862770-f36d-4e9f-a9db-97b132abc779`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).