---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax Exemption - Disabled Veteran, Active Duty, and Surviving Spouse - Application Process"
description: "Property Tax Exemption - Disabled Veteran, Active Duty, and Surviving Spouse - Application Process"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 975"
citation: "Maryland SB 975 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennings"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-15"
last_action: "2022-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f266fc49-3884-4fcb-9418-14fd80e61f59"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0975?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "b31a963852c85b6779a0ab15a95f6bdeae80bb455818ac9c24a07992b8b0e123"
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 975 (2022) — Property Tax Exemption - Disabled Veteran, Active Duty, and Surviving Spouse - Application Process

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Property Tax Exemption - Disabled Veteran, Active Duty, and Surviving Spouse - Application Process** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_196_sb0975t.pdf)
2. **First - Property Tax Exemption - Disabled Veteran, Active Duty, and Surviving Spouse - Application Process** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0975f.pdf)
3. **Third - Property Tax Exemption - Disabled Veteran, Active Duty, and Surviving Spouse - Application Process** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0975t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **130–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jennings — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-15** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-18** Rereferred to Budget and Taxation
- **2022-03-22** Hearing 3/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-25** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-25** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-25** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-28** Motion Special Order until 3/29 (Senator Guzzone) Adopted
- **2022-03-29** Motion Special Order until 3/31 (Senator Guzzone) Adopted
- **2022-03-31** Motion Returned Second Reading (Senator Guzzone) Adopted
- **2022-03-31** Floor Amendment {
- **2022-03-31** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-01** Referred Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-07** Rereferred to Ways and Means
- **2022-04-08** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-09** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-11** Returned Passed
- **2022-04-21** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 196 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f266fc49-3884-4fcb-9418-14fd80e61f59`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).