---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax - Exemptions for Business Personal Property - Alterations"
description: "Property Tax - Exemptions for Business Personal Property - Alterations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 268"
citation: "Maryland HB 268 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Attar", "Boteler", "C. Branch", "Hartman", "Henson", "Ivey", "Patterson", "Saab"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-13"
last_action: "2022-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f31e983-9640-4495-a4fd-c156c79875d5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0268?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "fb2392fc297eae3979cdfb5464b3adeb45ddf9cd82a9976bbc0cfdedd04e099a"
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 268 (2022) — Property Tax - Exemptions for Business Personal Property - Alterations

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Property Tax - Exemptions for Business Personal Property - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_327_hb0268t.pdf)
2. **First - Property Tax - Exemptions for Business Personal Property - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0268f.pdf)
3. **Third - Property Tax - Exemptions for Business Personal Property - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0268t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **130–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Attar — primary (person)
- Boteler — primary (person)
- C. Branch — primary (person)
- Hartman — primary (person)
- Henson — primary (person)
- Ivey — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Saab — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-13** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-13** Hearing 2/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-29** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 327 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8f31e983-9640-4495-a4fd-c156c79875d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).