CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
File Code: Taxes - Miscellaneous
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 1130
- Sponsored By:
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Senators Mooney, Colburn, Greenip, Harris, and Hooper
- Entitled:
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Taxpayers' Bill of Rights
Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution that establishes a
Bill of Rights for State individual income taxpayers; requiring voter
approval for new taxes, tax rate increases, and repeal of tax
exemptions; imposing specified spending limits on the State and local
governing bodies; requiring that specified revenues received in excess
of specified estimates be paid to individual income taxpayers; and
submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the State of
Maryland for their adoption or rejection.
Senate Action
- 2/6
- First Reading Budget and Taxation
- 3/10
- Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/9
- Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Alexander X. Mooney, District 3
- Senator Richard F. Colburn, District 37
- Senator Janet Greenip, District 33
- Senator Andrew P. Harris, District 7
- Senator J. Robert Hooper, District 35
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- BUDGETS -see also- CAPITAL BUDGETS
- CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
- COUNTIES -see also- CHARTERED COUNTIES; CODE COUNTIES
- DECLARATION OF RIGHTS
- EXEMPTIONS
- INCOME TAX
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT MANDATES
- REFERENDUM
- REVENUE AND TAXES -see also- DEV FEES & TAXES; specific tax.
- VOTING -see also- BALLOTS; ELECTIONS
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Declaration of Rights
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15
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- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered