---
type: "Bill"
title: "Somerset County - Property Tax - Emergency Services Tax"
description: "Somerset County - Property Tax - Emergency Services Tax"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 791"
citation: "Maryland HB 791 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beauchamp", "Hartman", "Otto"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aaf9f63b-ef04-42b8-a8ea-ae66f57f0f30"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0791?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "145cf2d24ca6301dc6a4e29a135bf440d498e25f677301d180a520a43c77f12b"
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 791 (2025) — Somerset County - Property Tax - Emergency Services Tax

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Somerset County - Property Tax - Emergency Services Tax** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_69_hb0791t.pdf)
2. **First - Somerset County - Property Tax - Emergency Services Tax** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0791f.pdf)
3. **Third - Somerset County - Property Tax - Emergency Services Tax** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0791t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **116–20** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beauchamp — primary (person)
- Hartman — primary (person)
- Otto — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Hearing 2/18 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`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 69 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aaf9f63b-ef04-42b8-a8ea-ae66f57f0f30`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).