---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax Credit - Surviving Spouse of Veteran"
description: "Property Tax Credit - Surviving Spouse of Veteran"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 502"
citation: "Maryland HB 502 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Property Tax", "Spouses", "Tax Credits", "Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wilkins"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-26"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81eca185-c3d5-4d05-a8c1-e4c41355aa29"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB502&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "c6cb6708a9fea0df3e46c9fd8c59cea353b666ef0d0f7514fa3e519a096f58f7"
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 502 (2018) — Property Tax Credit - Surviving Spouse of Veteran

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0502f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wilkins — primary (person)
- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
- Ali — cosponsor (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Aumann — cosponsor (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Beitzel — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Ciliberti — cosponsor (person)
- Cluster — cosponsor (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
- Folden — cosponsor (person)
- Frush — cosponsor (person)
- Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Glass — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Impallaria — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Kittleman — cosponsor (person)
- Knotts — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- Mautz — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Otto — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Proctor — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rey — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- S. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Sophocleus — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Vogt — cosponsor (person)
- W. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-26** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-26** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-22** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-23** Favorable with Amendments {105461/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-23** Floor Amendment {723022/1 (Delegate Metzgar) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2018-02-23** Special Order until 2/27 (Delegate Walker) Adopted
- **2018-02-27** Floor Amendment {663722/1 (Delegate A. Miller) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2018-02-27** Floor Amendment {963929/1 (Delegate Wilson) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2018-02-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-01** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-02** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-23** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-23** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-23** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-26** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-27** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 309 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/81eca185-c3d5-4d05-a8c1-e4c41355aa29`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).