---
type: "Bill"
title: "Anne Arundel County - Property Tax Credit - Supermarkets"
description: "Anne Arundel County - Property Tax Credit - Supermarkets"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 598"
citation: "Maryland HB 598 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "D. Jones", "Lehman", "Pruski", "Schmidt", "Simmons"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc85caa3-ecb2-41dd-9656-bea491e3adb2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0598?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "a28846eabe32da1f927192de707fe369a86c048ab7e0f319065ae014c7bd6f28"
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 598 (2025) — Anne Arundel County - Property Tax Credit - Supermarkets

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Anne Arundel County - Property Tax Credit - Supermarkets** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_177_hb0598t.pdf)
2. **First - Anne Arundel County - Property Tax Credit - Supermarkets** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0598f.pdf)
3. **Third - Anne Arundel County - Property Tax Credit - Supermarkets** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0598t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bagnall — primary (person)
- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Pruski — primary (person)
- Schmidt — primary (person)
- Simmons — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-23** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** 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 177 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cc85caa3-ecb2-41dd-9656-bea491e3adb2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).