---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wicomico County - Property Tax Credit - Hotel or Residential Development"
description: "Wicomico County - Property Tax Credit - Hotel or Residential Development"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 794"
citation: "Maryland SB 794 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wicomico County Senators"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-09"
last_action: "2021-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7ffe07e-645d-4183-8ee6-77d5197acd15"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0794?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "91137cc1ae8c70efd47fbe1cdbfe26cee928f80c1d7acbc46ee6fb36aab48d62"
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 794 (2021) — Wicomico County - Property Tax Credit - Hotel or Residential Development

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Wicomico County - Property Tax Credit - Hotel or Residential Development** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_716_sb0794t.pdf)
2. **First - Wicomico County - Property Tax Credit - Hotel or Residential Development** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0794f.pdf)
3. **Third - Wicomico County - Property Tax Credit - Hotel or Residential Development** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0794t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wicomico County Senators — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-09** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-11** Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2021-02-19** Hearing canceled
- **2021-02-19** Hearing 2/24 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2021-03-10** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-11** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-11** Second Reading Passed
- **2021-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-16** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17** Hearing 3/30 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 716 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c7ffe07e-645d-4183-8ee6-77d5197acd15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).