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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: "SB 807"
+citation: "Maryland SB 807 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Commerce", "Department of", "Income Tax", "Notices", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Small Business", "Tax Credits", "Veterans"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Smith"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-02-03"
+last_action: "2017-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6bce09f7-49e0-4400-a95f-5d906e5fdeba"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB807&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "b5c6c47c24abe993a8ee7b2d19818e36cd2db18a5648cb6e23cafd36a4052b27"
+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 807 (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/sb/sb0807t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **141–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Smith — primary (person)
+- Astle — cosponsor (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.
+
+- **2017-02-03** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-08** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {569231/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-05** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-06** Rereferred to Ways and Means
+- **2017-04-07** Hearing 4/07 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-08** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-08** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-08** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (141-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
+- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 180 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6bce09f7-49e0-4400-a95f-5d906e5fdeba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+