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Bill	Economic, Housing, and Community Development – Opportunity Zone Incentives	Economic, Housing, and Community Development – Opportunity Zone Incentives	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2019	SB 581	Maryland SB 581 (2019)	bill	Economic and Community Development Taxes - Income Taxes - Property Agriculture Allegany County Appropriations Assessments Baltimore City Budgets Census Commerce and Business Commerce Department of Commercial Rehabilitation Committees and Commissions Community Development Comptroller Contracts Counties Cybersecurity Development Fees and Taxes Electronic Government Enterprise Zones Food Garrett County Governor Grants Hazardous and Toxic Substances Historical Matters Housing and Community Development Department of Housing Industry and Technology Investments Jurisdiction Laws and Ordinances Leases and Rent Loans Municipal Corporations Notices Planning Department of Property Tax Real Property Records Reports Revenue and Taxes Rules and Regulations Salaries and Compensation Sales and Use Tax Small Business Smart Growth Somerset County Sunset Tax Credits Time Urban Renewal Wicomico County Work Labor and Employment Zoning and Planning	enacted	Ferguson	1	21	3	2019-02-04	2019-04-30	openstates	ocd-bill/9fdc9fc2-96db-4685-9837-88c9645b85b5	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB581&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs	3ba36b6a3fcd30462877a4c7672221ae3f94a61bb005d4b7611f1b6b9e4113b0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 581 (2019) — Economic, Housing, and Community Development – Opportunity Zone Incentives

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 126–6 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 44–0 (pass) · upper
• On third reading — 46–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ferguson — primary (person)
• Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
• Edwards — cosponsor (person)
• Feldman — cosponsor (person)
• Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
• Hayes — cosponsor (person)
• Hester — cosponsor (person)
• Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
• Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
• Serafini — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-04 First Reading Budget and Taxation referral-committee
• 2019-02-06 Hearing 2/26 at 2:00 p.m.
• 2019-03-25 Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-26 Favorable with Amendments {639634/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-03-26 Floor Amendment {403223/1 (Senator Ferguson) Adopted amendment-passage
• 2019-03-26 Floor Amendment {623828/1 (Senator Ferguson) Adopted amendment-passage
• 2019-03-26 Floor Amendment {123229/1 (Senator McCray) Adopted amendment-passage
• 2019-03-26 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2019-03-27 Third Reading Passed (44-0) passage
• 2019-03-28 First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations referral-committee
• 2019-03-28 Rereferred to Ways and Means
• 2019-03-29 Hearing 4/02 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2019-04-05 Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-05 Favorable with Amendments {615969/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-04-05 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2019-04-05 Floor Amendment {493523/2 (Delegate Lafferty) Adopted amendment-passage
• 2019-04-05 Third Reading Passed with Amendments (126-6) passage
• 2019-04-08 Senate Concur - House Amendments
• 2019-04-08 Third Reading Passed (46-0) passage
• 2019-04-08 Passed Enrolled
• 2019-04-30 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 211 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9fdc9fc2-96db-4685-9837-88c9645b85b5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).