---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax - Payment in Lieu of Taxes Agreements - Broadband Service Providers"
description: "Property Tax - Payment in Lieu of Taxes Agreements - Broadband Service Providers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 774"
citation: "Maryland SB 774 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hershey", "Zucker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c6bd657-3832-41a4-8fba-3957448b5077"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0774?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "2e1b8f616510c210f3be1e7349a320add1a5a9b5b68f0bedaf43dedbfcea73ee"
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 774 (2025) — Property Tax - Payment in Lieu of Taxes Agreements - Broadband Service Providers

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Property Tax - Payment in Lieu of Taxes Agreements - Broadband Service Providers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_208_sb0774t.pdf)
2. **First - Property Tax - Valuation of Operating Property of Rural Broadband Service Providers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0774f.pdf)
3. **Third - Property Tax - Payment in Lieu of Taxes Agreements - Broadband Service Providers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0774t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hershey — primary (person)
- Zucker — 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 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-14** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-14** Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-17** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-17** Hearing 2/26 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-25** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-25** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-26** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-26** Hearing 3/26 at 2:15 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
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 208 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c6bd657-3832-41a4-8fba-3957448b5077`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).