---
type: "Bill"
title: "Baltimore City - Property Tax Credit - Low-Income Employees"
description: "Baltimore City - Property Tax Credit - Low-Income Employees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1390"
citation: "Maryland HB 1390 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property - Local", "Baltimore City", "Housing", "Laws and Ordinances", "Property Tax", "Public Employees", "Rules and Regulations", "Salaries and Compensation", "Tax Credits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smith"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-25"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/065b1e44-926f-4c65-bcdf-eccc569487e5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1390&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "fd172b9725c1763001ba0423eb26488c7cdbf6cf7acd7096039e4cb73de52220"
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 1390 (2019) — Baltimore City - Property Tax Credit - Low-Income Employees

## 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/hb1390f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Smith — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Boyce — cosponsor (person)
- Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- Conaway — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-25** 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.
- **2019-03-07** Hearing 3/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-28** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-29** Third Reading Passed (132-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-01** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Rereferred to Budget and Taxation
- **2019-04-04** Hearing 4/04 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2019-04-08** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 383 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/065b1e44-926f-4c65-bcdf-eccc569487e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).