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Bill	Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act	Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2025	SB 278	Maryland SB 278 (2025)	bill		enacted	Bailey Benson Corderman Gallion Guzzone Hester Hettleman Jennings King Lewis Young M. Jackson Mautz McCray Rosapepe Salling Simonaire Zucker	3	14	2	2025-01-10	2025-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/7f551ee6-a915-4a43-b21f-ca43f84d9f97	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0278?ys=2025RS&search=True	e5a3163776ae0b9f69c7a1177991d2c2adf97f15426046bfcdd4643ad00c1edf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 278 (2025) — Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Tax Relief and Pensions Equality for Service Members Act (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 137–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bailey — primary (person)
• Benson — primary (person)
• Corderman — primary (person)
• Gallion — primary (person)
• Guzzone — primary (person)
• Hester — primary (person)
• Hettleman — primary (person)
• Jennings — primary (person)
• King — primary (person)
• Lewis Young — primary (person)
• M. Jackson — primary (person)
• Mautz — primary (person)
• McCray — primary (person)
• Rosapepe — primary (person)
• Salling — primary (person)
• Simonaire — primary (person)
• Zucker — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-10 First Reading Budget and Taxation and Education, Energy, and the Environment referral-committee
• 2025-01-15 Hearing 1/29 at 10:30 a.m. (Budget and Taxation)
• 2025-03-13 Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-13 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-13 Floor Amendment {
• 2025-03-13 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2025-03-14 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-03-15 Referred Appropriations Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2025-03-19 Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations)
• 2025-04-04 Favorable Report by Appropriations committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-04 Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-07 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-04-07 Returned Passed
• 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 258 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7f551ee6-a915-4a43-b21f-ca43f84d9f97. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).