---
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: "SB 719"
citation: "Maryland SB 719 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carozza"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45fcbe83-d7e6-4d35-9b24-6b678e3313de"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0719?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e328fbaca266e6fcaa8192ed198aa55887ceb0558fbf7049677412e2a67fb7a0"
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 719 (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_70_sb0719t.pdf)
2. **First - Somerset County - Property Tax - Emergency Services Tax** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0719f.pdf)
3. **Third - Somerset County - Property Tax - Emergency Services Tax** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0719t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **127–6** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **43–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Carozza — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-24** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-28** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Hearing 3/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 70 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/45fcbe83-d7e6-4d35-9b24-6b678e3313de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).