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type: "Bill"
title: "Howard County - Transfer Tax Exemption and Rate Reduction - Law Enforcement Officers and Fire and Rescue Services Members Ho. Co. 17-17"
description: "Howard County - Transfer Tax Exemption and Rate Reduction - Law Enforcement Officers and Fire and Rescue Services Members Ho. Co. 17-17"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1604"
citation: "Maryland HB 1604 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Recordation and Transfer", "Exemptions", "Fire Protection", "Housing", "Howard County", "Law Enforcement", "Public Local Laws", "Real Property", "Rescue Squads", "Transfer Tax"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howard County Delegation"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-22"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb663aba-a62c-423b-968a-86e29d3af440"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1604&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "1bd1cfddfd36dbca928a2bc10d273d8f6ab2282164f87ac0f212f198710b1b63"
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 HB 1604 (2017) — Howard County - Transfer Tax Exemption and Rate Reduction - Law Enforcement Officers and Fire and Rescue Services Members Ho. Co. 17-17
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1604f.pdf)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **1290** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **470** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Howard County Delegation — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-22** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-14** Rereferred to Ways and Means
- **2017-03-14** Hearing 3/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-18** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (129-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-24** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-27** Hearing canceled
- **2017-03-27** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-05** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-06** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 148 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bb663aba-a62c-423b-968a-86e29d3af440`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).