Maryland

Maryland has a TEL as listed in MD Code State Government Title 2 Section 1001-1010. This TEL has no enforcement mechanism. The TEL is a suggestion the legislature can make to the governor, but the governor does not have to follow the suggestion.

The base year represents the year the hypothetical Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR) would have been enacted. Selecting a base year changes how the state’s TABOR is calculated because the annual growth rates of inflation and population change depending on when TABOR is enacted.

Year	Inflation-adjusted Actual Spending
1992	17,460,969,480
1993	17,120,867,780
1994	17,453,460,320
1995	19,076,206,690
1996	19,478,505,080
1997	19,519,617,520
1998	20,465,330,450
1999	21,892,376,400
2000	22,847,849,670
2001	24,226,477,890
2002	26,896,714,210
2003	15,913,549,000
2004	25,370,881,790
2005	26,002,670,490
2006	28,383,991,120
2007	30,318,792,160
2008	31,033,736,940
2009	31,546,750,980
2010	29,915,340,230
2011	29,871,062,640
2012	31,687,208,200
2013	32,836,506,960
2014	32,883,889,120
2015	33,482,113,930
2016	33,938,692,400
2017	36,325,882,530
2018	35,989,585,090
2019	35,536,913,440
2020	36,085,408,570
2021	35,464,949,290
2022	37,042,000,000

*All spending figures are in inflation-adjusted 2022 dollars.