---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax - Homeowners' Property Tax Credit - Calculation and Refunds"
description: "Property Tax - Homeowners' Property Tax Credit - Calculation and Refunds"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 593"
citation: "Maryland SB 593 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carter", "Feldman", "Hayes", "Kagan", "King", "Kramer", "Lee", "McCray", "Smith", "Sydnor", "Waldstreicher", "Washington", "Zucker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-29"
last_action: "2021-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b7715fd-0704-42eb-a075-ce4171c58abe"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0593?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "254c37d12d159e43540e50979cb35d50f0474ab4d21e4f59e52fce967f398be9"
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 593 (2021) — Property Tax - Homeowners' Property Tax Credit - Calculation and Refunds

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Property Tax - Homeowners' Property Tax Credit - Calculation and Refunds** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_718_sb0593t.pdf)
2. **First - Property Tax - Homeowners' Property Tax Credit - Calculation and Refunds** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0593f.pdf)
3. **Third - Property Tax - Homeowners' Property Tax Credit - Calculation and Refunds** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0593t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Carter — primary (person)
- Feldman — primary (person)
- Hayes — primary (person)
- Kagan — primary (person)
- King — primary (person)
- Kramer — primary (person)
- Lee — primary (person)
- McCray — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Sydnor — primary (person)
- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
- Washington — primary (person)
- Zucker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-29** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-02** Hearing 2/17 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2021-02-24** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-24** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-24** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-03** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-08** Hearing 3/23 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-03-20** Hearing canceled
- **2021-03-31** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-01** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2021-05-30** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 718 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b7715fd-0704-42eb-a075-ce4171c58abe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).