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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act"
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description: "Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
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legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "SB 278"
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citation: "Maryland SB 278 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bailey", "Benson", "Corderman", "Gallion", "Guzzone", "Hester", "Hettleman", "Jennings", "King", "Lewis Young", "M. Jackson", "Mautz", "McCray", "Rosapepe", "Salling", "Simonaire", "Zucker"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 14
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-01-10"
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last_action: "2025-05-06"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f551ee6-a915-4a43-b21f-ca43f84d9f97"
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source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0278?ys=2025RS&search=True"
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source_hash: "e5a3163776ae0b9f69c7a1177991d2c2adf97f15426046bfcdd4643ad00c1edf"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
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---
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# Maryland SB 278 (2025) — Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Chapter - Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_258_sb0278t.pdf)
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2. **First - Tax Relief and Pensions Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0278f.pdf)
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3. **Third - Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0278t.pdf)
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## Votes
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- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
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- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Bailey — primary (person)
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- Benson — primary (person)
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- Corderman — primary (person)
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- Gallion — primary (person)
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- Guzzone — primary (person)
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- Hester — primary (person)
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- Hettleman — primary (person)
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- Jennings — primary (person)
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- King — primary (person)
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- Lewis Young — primary (person)
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- M. Jackson — primary (person)
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- Mautz — primary (person)
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- McCray — primary (person)
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- Rosapepe — primary (person)
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- Salling — primary (person)
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- Simonaire — primary (person)
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- Zucker — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-10** First Reading Budget and Taxation and Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-15** Hearing 1/29 at 10:30 a.m. (Budget and Taxation)
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- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-13** Floor Amendment {
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- **2025-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
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- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
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- **2025-03-15** Referred Appropriations Ways and Means `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations)
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- **2025-04-04** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
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- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
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- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 258 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f551ee6-a915-4a43-b21f-ca43f84d9f97`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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