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type: "Bill"
title: "County Tax Fairness Act"
description: "County Tax Fairness Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 621"
citation: "Maryland HB 621 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Barve", "Carr", "Charkoudian", "Crutchfield", "Cullison", "Dumais", "Fraser-Hidalgo", "Gilchrist", "Kaiser", "Kelly", "Korman", "Lopez", "Love", "Luedtke", "Moon", "Palakovich Carr", "Qi", "Queen", "Reznik", "Shetty", "Solomon", "Stewart", "Wilkins"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-29"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b631ce9-2976-4982-9a47-ce55d57ea17d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0621?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "f48d47a127659286e9d3a26b858ea925cf01d40df1219818f4bfcc03941f5385"
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 621 (2020) — County Tax Fairness Act
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - County Tax Fairness Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_632_hb0621t.pdf)
2. **First - County Tax Fairness Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0621f.pdf)
3. **Third - County Tax Fairness Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0621t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1280** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **450** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Acevero — primary (person)
- Barve — primary (person)
- Carr — primary (person)
- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Dumais — primary (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — primary (person)
- Gilchrist — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kelly — primary (person)
- Korman — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Love — primary (person)
- Luedtke — primary (person)
- Moon — primary (person)
- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
- Qi — primary (person)
- Queen — primary (person)
- Reznik — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Solomon — primary (person)
- Stewart — primary (person)
- Wilkins — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-29** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-31** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-10** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-12** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-15** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-16** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Second Reading Passed
- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-17** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 632 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b631ce9-2976-4982-9a47-ce55d57ea17d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).