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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Income Tax Credit - Qualified Farms - Food Donation Pilot Program"
+description: "Income Tax Credit - Qualified Farms - Food Donation Pilot Program"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 416"
+citation: "Maryland SB 416 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Agriculture", "Department of", "Agriculture", "Anne Arundel County", "Calvert County", "Charles County", "Comptroller", "Food", "Gifts", "Income Tax", "Montgomery County", "Prince George's County", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "St. Mary's County", "Tax Credits"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Middleton"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-01-27"
+last_action: "2017-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/831f7894-e6c4-4f25-8079-5621755751c1"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB416&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "29d7f4d68edbd9e6d6e3e0a1cde4e53134b5e30bfeabd6a7eab9c5214410e10f"
+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 SB 416 (2017) — Income Tax Credit - Qualified Farms - Food Donation Pilot Program
+
+## 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/sb/sb0416f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Floor Amendment {933326/1 (Delegate Fisher) — **49–87** (fail) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **125–14** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Middleton — primary (person)
+- Currie — cosponsor (person)
+- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
+- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
+- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
+- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Kasemeyer — cosponsor (person)
+- King — cosponsor (person)
+- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
+- Manno — cosponsor (person)
+- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-27** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-27** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-02-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-21** Favorable with Amendments {299736/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-02-23** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-02-24** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-01** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-04** Floor Amendment {933326/1 (Delegate Fisher) Rejected (49-87) `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (125-14) `passage`
+- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
+- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 232 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/831f7894-e6c4-4f25-8079-5621755751c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+