---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax - Credit for Hotel or Residential Development Projects"
description: "Property Tax - Credit for Hotel or Residential Development Projects"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 765"
citation: "Maryland HB 765 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wells"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-31"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92ee3fbf-de68-4a3f-843d-fa6b3cd12c1b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0765?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "5078d94ef681500774150ee7724add0b77d959b3bc10aa0b4cc9cfb4fb4d15bf"
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 765 (2024) — Property Tax - Credit for Hotel or Residential Development Projects

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Property Tax - Credit for Hotel or Residential Development Projects** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_149_hb0765t.pdf)
2. **First - Property Tax - Credit for Hotel or Residential Development Projects** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0765f.pdf)
3. **Third - Property Tax - Credit for Hotel or Residential Development Projects** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0765t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **121–12** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wells — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-31** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-05** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-15** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** Hearing 3/26 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-29** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 149 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92ee3fbf-de68-4a3f-843d-fa6b3cd12c1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).