---
type: "Bill"
title: "Baltimore City – Homestead Property Tax Credit – Notice"
description: "Baltimore City – Homestead Property Tax Credit – Notice"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 642"
citation: "Maryland HB 642 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Amprey", "Attar", "Boyce", "Bridges", "C. Branch", "Kaiser", "McIntosh", "Prettyman", "R. Lewis", "Sample-Hughes", "Smith", "T. Branch", "Wells"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-31"
last_action: "2022-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1b09a280-b156-4e80-b69a-65b2a32c73a3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0642?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e3c710ec277b496d8c84183d6d833d8f61ba7e81668c5cb64dc9dcdd2e794a86"
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 642 (2022) — Baltimore City – Homestead Property Tax Credit – Notice

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Baltimore City – Homestead Property Tax Credit – Notice** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_330_hb0642t.pdf)
2. **First - Baltimore City – Homestead Property Tax Credit – Notice** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0642f.pdf)
3. **Third - Baltimore City – Homestead Property Tax Credit – Notice** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0642t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Amprey — primary (person)
- Attar — primary (person)
- Boyce — primary (person)
- Bridges — primary (person)
- C. Branch — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- McIntosh — primary (person)
- Prettyman — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- T. Branch — primary (person)
- Wells — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-31** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-02** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-14** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-15** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-16** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-22** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-04-09** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-09** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-09** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-04-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 330 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1b09a280-b156-4e80-b69a-65b2a32c73a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).