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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Biotechnology Investment Tax Credit - Qualified Maryland Biotechnology Company - Definition"
+description: "Biotechnology Investment Tax Credit - Qualified Maryland Biotechnology Company - Definition"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 373"
+citation: "Maryland HB 373 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Industry and Technology", "Investments", "Medical Research", "Tax Credits"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["D. Barnes"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-01-25"
+last_action: "2017-05-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c1d6163d-d37e-4f03-aedb-19f4ffcf580a"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB373&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "6158c03d25826f95570ef6db1b94feb9dce4cfc8ee16abd8d77e0f85db7ef6a6"
+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 373 (2017) — Biotechnology Investment Tax Credit - Qualified Maryland Biotechnology Company - Definition
+
+## 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/hb0373f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **132–6** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **135–4** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- D. Barnes — primary (person)
+- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
+- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Chang — cosponsor (person)
+- Ciliberti — cosponsor (person)
+- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
+- Folden — cosponsor (person)
+- Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
+- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
+- Haynes — cosponsor (person)
+- Knotts — cosponsor (person)
+- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- McConkey — cosponsor (person)
+- McKay — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — cosponsor (person)
+- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
+- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Vogt — 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.
+- **2017-03-13** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-14** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (135-4) `passage`
+- **2017-03-16** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-21** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-04** Favorable with Amendments {709236/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-08** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (132-6) `passage`
+- **2017-04-08** Passed Enrolled
+- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 475 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c1d6163d-d37e-4f03-aedb-19f4ffcf580a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+