---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax Assessments - Conservation Property - Alteration of Definition"
description: "Property Tax Assessments - Conservation Property - Alteration of Definition"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1350"
citation: "Maryland HB 1350 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Agriculture", "Environment", "Agriculture", "Assessments", "Conservation", "Easements", "Environmental Trust", "Farmland", "Land Preservation Trusts", "Property Tax"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clark"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-18"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e8b8333-7e55-4889-81ea-e749db0a2148"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1350&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "b2bd62bb96e23ec7adbb6683859956a4be05c14f3c8e40eb0f7868ca43a7fe6d"
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 1350 (2019) — Property Tax Assessments - Conservation Property - Alteration of Definition

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb1350f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Clark — primary (person)
- Barve — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-18** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-01** Rereferred to Ways and Means
- **2019-03-07** Hearing 3/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {545961/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-18** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-05** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 241 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9e8b8333-7e55-4889-81ea-e749db0a2148`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).