---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sales and Use Tax - Baby Products - Exemption"
description: "Sales and Use Tax - Baby Products - Exemption"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 288"
citation: "Maryland HB 288 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Attar", "Atterbeary", "Charles", "Crosby", "D. Jones", "Ebersole", "Feldmark", "Griffith", "Guyton", "Hornberger", "Ivey", "Lisanti", "Long", "Luedtke", "Patterson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-01-17"
last_action: "2022-04-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d37f0ba8-cd58-4ac3-b0f7-f358dd18d374"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0288?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "684843159a3099c053b7dc377edca04de954d5580f211dd11f34550dbdd69ab5"
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 288 (2022) — Sales and Use Tax - Baby Products - Exemption

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Sales and Use Tax - Baby Products - Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_9_hb0288t.pdf)
2. **First - Sales and Use Tax - Baby Products - Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0288f.pdf)
3. **Third - Sales and Use Tax - Baby Products - Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0288t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **130–0** (pass) · lower
- FLA Del. Morgan /653721/1 — **50–83** (fail) · lower
- Bill is on third reading for final passage. — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Attar — primary (person)
- Atterbeary — primary (person)
- Charles — primary (person)
- Crosby — primary (person)
- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Ebersole — primary (person)
- Feldmark — primary (person)
- Griffith — primary (person)
- Guyton — primary (person)
- Hornberger — primary (person)
- Ivey — primary (person)
- Lisanti — primary (person)
- Long — primary (person)
- Luedtke — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-17** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-17** Hearing 2/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-02-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-01** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-01** Floor Amendment {
- **2022-03-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-04** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-22** Hearing 3/24 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-03-28** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2022-04-01** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 9 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d37f0ba8-cd58-4ac3-b0f7-f358dd18d374`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).