---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allegany County - Property Tax Credit - Cumberland Economic Development Corporation"
description: "Allegany County - Property Tax Credit - Cumberland Economic Development Corporation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 214"
citation: "Maryland SB 214 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property - Local", "Allegany County", "Commerce and Business", "Laws and Ordinances", "Municipal Corporations", "Property Tax", "Tax Credits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edwards"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-24"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63d36b38-6ec6-497c-bd41-2a1a18ac82ec"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB214&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "e9541efb82809938f8466249e0b8dce8a38748da185351f19174ae32b67c6f7e"
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 214 (2019) — Allegany County - Property Tax Credit - Cumberland Economic Development Corporation

## 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/sb/sb0214f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Edwards — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-24** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Hearing 2/05 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2019-02-07** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-08** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-02-12** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-13** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 118 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63d36b38-6ec6-497c-bd41-2a1a18ac82ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).