---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax - Payment in Lieu of Taxes Agreements - Broadband Service Providers"
description: "Property Tax - Payment in Lieu of Taxes Agreements - Broadband Service Providers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 969"
citation: "Maryland HB 969 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Johnson", "Griffith", "Wells"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df8f6d15-a9ea-488b-8569-d54193080111"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0969?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "50ada646724a22d3ed5024714880055d4805bdc5f2c7b4fc6cfd4bbc80103008"
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 969 (2025) — Property Tax - Payment in Lieu of Taxes Agreements - Broadband Service Providers

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Property Tax - Payment in Lieu of Taxes Agreements - Broadband Service Providers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_209_hb0969t.pdf)
2. **First - Property Tax – Valuation of Operating Property of Rural Broadband Service Providers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0969f.pdf)
3. **Third - Property Tax - Payment in Lieu of Taxes Agreements - Broadband Service Providers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0969t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Johnson — primary (person)
- Griffith — primary (person)
- Wells — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 209 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/df8f6d15-a9ea-488b-8569-d54193080111`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).