---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax - Deadline to Set County and Municipal Corporation Tax Rates - Alteration"
description: "Property Tax - Deadline to Set County and Municipal Corporation Tax Rates - Alteration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 204"
citation: "Maryland SB 204 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-09-18"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4864208-e145-48f7-bf05-8dac32bd9708"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0204?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "a9b991efdab2a3a91119b0dd192b864091765279b90a99cb4597b1c785d35622"
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 204 (2025) — Property Tax - Deadline to Set County and Municipal Corporation Tax Rates - Alteration

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Property Tax - Deadline to Set County and Municipal Corporation Tax Rates - Alteration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_230_sb0204t.pdf)
2. **First - Property Tax - Deadline to Set County and Municipal Corporation Tax Rates - Alteration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0204f.pdf)
3. **Third - Property Tax - Deadline to Set County and Municipal Corporation Tax Rates - Alteration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0204t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **41–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair, Budget and Taxation Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-18** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08** Hearing 1/15 at 10:30 a.m.
- **2025-02-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-06** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-11** 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 230 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f4864208-e145-48f7-bf05-8dac32bd9708`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).