The Maryland Senate voted 29-17 on Friday to override Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto of a new digital advertising tax, enacting the controversial law and setting up a potential legal showdown.
The Senate’s vote comes a day after the House of Delegates also voted to override the veto. Democrats hold super-majorities in both chambers.
Senate President Bill Ferguson and the late Senate President Emeritus Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., originally proposed the creation of the digital ad tax last year as a way to help the state to hold large tech companies like Facebook and Google accountable, while also generating revenue to help pay for a massive public education reform plan. The tax, the first of its kind enacted in the U.S., will potentially raise $250 million in the first year of implementation, according to estimates by legislative analysts.
