---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local Government - Accommodations Intermediaries - Hotel Rental Tax - Collection by Comptroller and Alterations"
description: "Local Government - Accommodations Intermediaries - Hotel Rental Tax - Collection by Comptroller and Alterations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 979"
citation: "Maryland SB 979 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Guzzone"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/437777b4-0993-496a-a5c6-53cb81ce0daa"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0979?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e8c2e4cc2c4d1cb21f33007885e25488f284fe1442c92d38f2ba50c1c956e1a1"
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 979 (2025) — Local Government - Accommodations Intermediaries - Hotel Rental Tax - Collection by Comptroller and Alterations

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Local Government - Accommodations Intermediaries - Hotel Rental Tax - Collection by Comptroller and Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_638_sb0979t.pdf)
2. **First - Local Government - Accommodations Intermediaries - Hotel Rental Tax Collection by Comptroller** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0979f.pdf)
3. **Third - Local Government - Accommodations Intermediaries - Hotel Rental Tax - Collection by Comptroller and Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0979t.pdf)

## Votes

- FLA Del. Hutchinson /813124/1 — **37–100** (fail) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–1** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **119–20** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Guzzone — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05** Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Motion Laid Over (Senator Zucker) Adopted
- **2025-04-01** Favorable with Amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Committee Amendment {
- **2025-04-01** Substitute Committee Amendment {
- **2025-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Referred Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Rereferred to Ways and Means
- **2025-04-05** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-07** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-04-07** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 638 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/437777b4-0993-496a-a5c6-53cb81ce0daa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).