republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2017/hb-979.md

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Bill	Property Tax Credit - Public Safety Officers	Property Tax Credit - Public Safety Officers	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2017	HB 979	Maryland HB 979 (2017)	bill	Taxes - Property Assessments and Taxation Department of Correctional Officers Emergency Medical Services Fire Protection Law Enforcement Property Tax Rescue Squads Sheriffs Tax Credits Volunteers	enacted	Luedtke	1	16	2	2017-02-06	2017-05-25	openstates	ocd-bill/24dff851-43a4-46bf-bbe9-f032e4bc40a7	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB979&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs	64c1cf7c710a43e0396cd6ff419fd44ee9e19b975f4cca1f291bacfda656a924	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 979 (2017) — Property Tax Credit - Public Safety Officers

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 47–0 (pass) · legislature
• Third Reading — 127–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Luedtke — primary (person)
• Afzali — cosponsor (person)
• Buckel — cosponsor (person)
• Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
• Hixson — cosponsor (person)
• Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
• Long — cosponsor (person)
• Mosby — cosponsor (person)
• Reilly — cosponsor (person)
• Rose — cosponsor (person)
• Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
• Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
• Tarlau — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-06 First Reading Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2017-02-10 Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2017-03-18 Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-18 Favorable with Amendments {105664/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-18 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2017-03-20 Third Reading Passed (127-0) passage
• 2017-03-20 First Reading Budget and Taxation referral-committee
• 2017-03-24 Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2017-03-27 Hearing canceled
• 2017-03-27 Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2017-04-04 Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-04-04 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-04-04 Second Reading Passed
• 2017-04-05 Third Reading Passed (47-0) passage
• 2017-04-06 Returned Passed
• 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 686 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/24dff851-43a4-46bf-bbe9-f032e4bc40a7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).