Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
5 instruments in Maryland. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
▲Expands benefitsOpens the disabled veteran property tax exemption to any veteran under the federal definition, including the Space Force, rather than only the honorably discharged.
Amended Tax-Property section 7-208(a)(3) so that a disabled veteran is anyone who "is a veteran", meaning 38 U.S.C. 101 through State Government section 9-901, rather than someone "honorably discharged or released under honorable circumstances", and added space service throughout, with parallel changes to the local credits in sections 9-265 and 9-323 and to the job creation tax credit. Section 3 applies to taxable years beginning after June 30, 2026. Chapter 647 of the same session reenacted section 7-208(a) in its old words without amendments; the Code prints Chapter 689’s text. Approved May 26, 2026, effective July 1, 2026.
Rewrote Education section 18-601(f): each college determines eligibility, the Higher Education Commission allocates funds to each college by formula subject to the State budget, colleges award only within their allocation, and continuing recipients have priority. The 15-a-year limit on veterans qualifying at 25% in section 18-601(g)(2) is unchanged. Approved May 26, 2026, effective July 1, 2026.
▲Expands benefitsRaises the income ceiling for the optional local disabled veteran credit to $150,000 single and $300,000 joint.
Amended Tax-Property section 9-265, the credit a county or city may grant against local property tax, 50% at a rating of 75% or more for a veteran not in the 7-208 exemption and 25% at 50% to 74%, to replace the $100,000 federal adjusted gross income limit with $150,000 on an individual return and $300,000 on a joint return. Approved May 26, 2026, effective June 1, 2026, for taxable years beginning after June 30, 2026. The credit exists only where a local law adopts it.
▲Expands benefitsLets a county or city grant a local property tax credit to a surviving spouse who is not eligible for the state exemption.
Added Tax-Property section 9-267.1, letting Baltimore City, a county or a city grant by law a credit against local property tax on the dwelling of a surviving spouse, as section 7-208 defines one, who is ineligible for the 7-208 exemption, with the amount, duration and further conditions set locally. The introduced bill would have repealed the two-year acquisition window in section 7-208(b); the enacted act does not. Approved May 26, 2026, effective June 1, 2026, for taxable years beginning after June 30, 2026.
▲Expands benefitsCounts as honorable, for every state veterans benefit, a discharge the department finds eligible under 38 C.F.R. 3.12.
Added General Provisions section 1-109.1(a)(3): with respect to any State program of benefits, rights, or privileges for a veteran, "honorable discharge" includes a less than honorable discharge where the Department of Veterans and Military Families determines the individual is eligible for State benefits under the federal character of discharge criteria in 38 C.F.R. 3.12. Items (1) and (2) already covered discharges for sexual orientation or gender identity. Effective October 1, 2025.
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