---
type: "Bill"
title: "Anne Arundel County - Property Tax Credit - Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake, Incorporated"
description: "Anne Arundel County - Property Tax Credit - Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake, Incorporated"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 178"
citation: "Maryland SB 178 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gile", "Henson", "Lam", "Rosapepe", "Simonaire"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-09-02"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15a57aba-f19e-44a0-8627-a05da21880e2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0178?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "71b461ad4bf4cc016034178c926ab5a7d9d7c4ebca73f5bfafe5c3181696e315"
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 178 (2025) — Anne Arundel County - Property Tax Credit - Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake, Incorporated

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Anne Arundel County - Property Tax Credit - Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake, Incorporated** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_179_sb0178t.pdf)
2. **First - Anne Arundel County - Property Tax Credit - Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake, Incorporated** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0178f.pdf)
3. **Third - Anne Arundel County - Property Tax Credit - Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake, Incorporated** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0178t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gile — primary (person)
- Henson — primary (person)
- Lam — primary (person)
- Rosapepe — primary (person)
- Simonaire — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-02** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08** Hearing 1/15 at 10:30 a.m.
- **2025-02-24** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-28** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Hearing 3/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 179 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/15a57aba-f19e-44a0-8627-a05da21880e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).