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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Income Tax Credit - Venison Donation - Feed the Hungry Organizations"
+description: "Income Tax Credit - Venison Donation - Feed the Hungry Organizations"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 7"
+citation: "Maryland HB 7 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Comptroller", "Food", "Gifts", "Hunting", "Income Tax", "Natural Resources", "Department of", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Reports", "Sunset", "Tax Credits"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mautz"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-08-15"
+last_action: "2018-04-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b2064656-acde-42f3-8382-0185e2d24390"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB7&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "44177f85feb0cbd9b544f930f46d2da9e84819885f996fd931f38f496536e829"
+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 7 (2018) — Income Tax Credit - Venison Donation - Feed the Hungry Organizations
+
+## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0007f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mautz — primary (person)
+- Beitzel — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
+- Carey — cosponsor (person)
+- McComas — cosponsor (person)
+- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-08-15** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2018-01-10** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-03** Hearing 1/17 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {415467/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-16** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-16** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-19** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-23** Hearing canceled
+- **2018-03-23** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-23** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-23** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-26** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-27** Returned Passed
+- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 172 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b2064656-acde-42f3-8382-0185e2d24390`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+