---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax - Credit for Commercial Buildings Rented to Small Businesses"
description: "Property Tax - Credit for Commercial Buildings Rented to Small Businesses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 767"
citation: "Maryland SB 767 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ferguson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-02-06"
last_action: "2026-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a6907a0-770b-4a0d-ac09-cee7008545d3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0767?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "cd263ab4a5d104e306791c8340b0fe9e65293c0b77c17097bc24f23e413d69c4"
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 767 (2026) — Property Tax - Credit for Commercial Buildings Rented to Small Businesses

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Property Tax - Credit for Commercial Buildings Rented to Small Businesses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_603_sb0767t.pdf)
2. **First - Property Tax - Credit for Commercial Buildings Rented to Small Businesses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0767f.pdf)
3. **Third - Property Tax - Credit for Commercial Buildings Rented to Small Businesses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0767t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **41–1** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **121–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ferguson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-06** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-11** Hearing 3/03 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2026-03-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-06** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-03-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-11** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-16** Hearing 3/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-04-10** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-10** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-13** Returned Passed
- **2026-05-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 603 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a6907a0-770b-4a0d-ac09-cee7008545d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).