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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Income Tax Credit - Wages Paid to Qualified Veteran Employees (Hire Our Veterans Act of 2017)"
+description: "Income Tax Credit - Wages Paid to Qualified Veteran Employees (Hire Our Veterans Act of 2017)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 349"
+citation: "Maryland HB 349 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Commerce", "Department of", "Income Tax", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Small Business", "Tax Credits", "Veterans"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Miele"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-01-25"
+last_action: "2017-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4962f76-3acf-40ed-b2b3-2528d4e369c0"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB349&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "43f301a2e66e1394d4e0d0ddd3f521a0c5804e20d165db9a8bf9df87b930e694"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
+---
+
+# Maryland HB 349 (2017) — Income Tax Credit - Wages Paid to Qualified Veteran Employees (Hire Our Veterans Act of 2017)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0349t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Miele — primary (person)
+- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
+- Ali — cosponsor (person)
+- Angel — cosponsor (person)
+- Aumann — cosponsor (person)
+- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
+- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Chang — cosponsor (person)
+- Ciliberti — cosponsor (person)
+- Cluster — cosponsor (person)
+- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
+- Folden — cosponsor (person)
+- Frush — cosponsor (person)
+- Grammer — cosponsor (person)
+- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
+- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
+- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
+- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- Long — cosponsor (person)
+- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
+- McConkey — cosponsor (person)
+- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
+- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Queen — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Rose — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+- Sophocleus — cosponsor (person)
+- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Walker — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-25** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {165667/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-18** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-20** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-24** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {329033/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
+- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 181 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e4962f76-3acf-40ed-b2b3-2528d4e369c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+