---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax - Day Care Centers, Child Care Homes, and Child Care Centers"
description: "Property Tax - Day Care Centers, Child Care Homes, and Child Care Centers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 389"
citation: "Maryland HB 389 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Jones", "Palakovich Carr"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d5c58d6-58d1-4224-b862-ebadd343bfd5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0389?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "d6afe5e9db06eaa7a40e29f667ee7b01845c36d677d7a8dc3621ffb4bd6beca5"
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 389 (2025) — Property Tax - Day Care Centers, Child Care Homes, and Child Care Centers

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Property Tax - Day Care Centers, Child Care Homes, and Child Care Centers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_122_hb0389t.pdf)
2. **First - Property Tax - Day Care Centers, Child Care Homes, and Child Care Centers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0389f.pdf)
3. **Third - Property Tax - Day Care Centers, Child Care Homes, and Child Care Centers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0389t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **133–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-18** Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-04** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-05** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 122 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5d5c58d6-58d1-4224-b862-ebadd343bfd5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).