---
type: "Bill"
title: "Montgomery County - Disabled Active Duty Service Members, Disabled Veterans, and Surviving Spouses - Property Tax Abatement MC 20-21"
description: "Montgomery County - Disabled Active Duty Service Members, Disabled Veterans, and Surviving Spouses - Property Tax Abatement MC 20-21"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 571"
citation: "Maryland HB 571 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Montgomery County Delegation"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-20"
last_action: "2021-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/783b1dc5-3b7d-4ffe-b0ce-945e9aeb6436"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0571?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "dfaae74501b5eaf2b5062d5e507ee11ad725ebe89b6c44fd4c4fe01587540f1c"
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 571 (2021) — Montgomery County - Disabled Active Duty Service Members, Disabled Veterans, and Surviving Spouses - Property Tax Abatement MC 20-21

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Montgomery County - Disabled Active Duty Service Members, Disabled Veterans, and Surviving Spouses - Property Tax Abatement MC 20-21** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_367_hb0571t.pdf)
2. **First - Montgomery County - Disabled Active Duty Service Members, Disabled Veterans, and Surviving Spouses - Property Tax Abatement MC 20-21** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0571f.pdf)
3. **Third - Montgomery County - Disabled Active Duty Service Members, Disabled Veterans, and Surviving Spouses - Property Tax Abatement MC 20-21** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0571t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **135–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Montgomery County Delegation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-20** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21** Hearing 2/02 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-03-15** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-16** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-19** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2021-04-02** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-05** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2021-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2021-05-30** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 367 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/783b1dc5-3b7d-4ffe-b0ce-945e9aeb6436`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).