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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Income Tax Credit - Qualified Research and Development Expenses - Application for and Procedure to Claim Credit"
+description: "Income Tax Credit - Qualified Research and Development Expenses - Application for and Procedure to Claim Credit"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 563"
+citation: "Maryland SB 563 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Commerce", "Department of", "Income Tax", "Industry and Technology", "Tax Credits"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Serafini"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-12-08"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/738c267b-d9a6-46f0-b764-213f4eb61bee"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB563&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "bf05276c5e49ebd821303d8062c5d98957e4f3e3fe14439236fae0caaf82a0fe"
+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 563 (2018) — Income Tax Credit - Qualified Research and Development Expenses - Application for and Procedure to Claim Credit
+
+## 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/sb/sb0563f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Serafini — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-31** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-05** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-06** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-09** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-12** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-09** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
+- **2017-12-08** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 609 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/738c267b-d9a6-46f0-b764-213f4eb61bee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+