---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax - Day Care Centers, Child Care Homes, and Child Care Centers"
description: "Property Tax - Day Care Centers, Child Care Homes, and Child Care Centers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 516"
citation: "Maryland SB 516 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Benson", "Hettleman", "King", "Lewis Young", "M. Jackson", "McCray", "Salling", "Zucker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-24"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aefed7e4-369d-4176-8d9e-4dd96e354adb"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0516?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "f5b442f8183a64df0ce547c9ca5022dccfdc3c3726919825433df2c9b5ef426e"
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 516 (2025) — Property Tax - Day Care Centers, Child Care Homes, and Child Care Centers

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Property Tax - Day Care Centers, Child Care Homes, and Child Care Centers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_123_sb0516t.pdf)
2. **First - Property Tax - Day Care Centers, Child Care Homes, and Child Care Centers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0516f.pdf)
3. **Third - Property Tax - Day Care Centers, Child Care Homes, and Child Care Centers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0516t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **129–10** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Benson — primary (person)
- Hettleman — primary (person)
- King — primary (person)
- Lewis Young — primary (person)
- M. Jackson — primary (person)
- McCray — primary (person)
- Salling — primary (person)
- Zucker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-24** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-11** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-11** Hearing 2/12 at 1:05 p.m.
- **2025-02-11** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-11** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-25** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-25** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-26** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-26** Hearing 3/26 at 2:15 p.m.
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 123 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aefed7e4-369d-4176-8d9e-4dd96e354adb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).