---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act"
description: "Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 691"
citation: "Maryland HB 691 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Allen", "Attar", "Buckel", "Cardin", "Guyton", "McComas", "Pasteur", "Patterson", "Phillips", "Pruski", "Rose", "Taveras", "Williams", "Wims"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-24"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10f1ba81-07ca-4953-9966-7b82dd15c180"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0691?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "abf5c5259aabee2d6198f9f63154ebe833b0858ddcfff746989ff047a3f1d2c9"
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 691 (2025) — Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_257_hb0691t.pdf)
2. **First - Tax Relief and Pensions Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0691f.pdf)
3. **Third - Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0691t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Acevero — primary (person)
- Allen — primary (person)
- Attar — primary (person)
- Buckel — primary (person)
- Cardin — primary (person)
- Guyton — primary (person)
- McComas — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Phillips — primary (person)
- Pruski — primary (person)
- Rose — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)
- Wims — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-24** First Reading Appropriations and Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-08** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations)
- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Budget and Taxation Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 257 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/10f1ba81-07ca-4953-9966-7b82dd15c180`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).