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type: "Bill"
title: "Economic, Housing, and Community Development Opportunity Zone Incentives"
description: "Economic, Housing, and Community Development Opportunity Zone Incentives"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 581"
citation: "Maryland SB 581 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["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"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ferguson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9fdc9fc2-96db-4685-9837-88c9645b85b5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB581&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "3ba36b6a3fcd30462877a4c7672221ae3f94a61bb005d4b7611f1b6b9e4113b0"
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 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](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0581f.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1266** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **440** (pass) · upper
- On third reading — **460** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9fdc9fc2-96db-4685-9837-88c9645b85b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).