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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Income Tax – Subtraction Modification – Retirement Income (Hometown Heroes and Veterans Act of 2018)"
+description: "Income Tax – Subtraction Modification – Retirement Income (Hometown Heroes and Veterans Act of 2018)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 996"
+citation: "Maryland SB 996 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Armed Forces", "Correctional Officers", "Elderly Persons", "Exemptions", "Income Tax", "Juvenile Facilities", "Retirement Systems", "Veterans"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Peters"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-02-05"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/245e3acd-2ae8-4c42-9b5f-949ec32f82d5"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB996&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "194380cd01e52eff5d461ac27372e0c78a64ba3d4207af42303ad8cdd0b9e9d8"
+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 996 (2018) — Income Tax – Subtraction Modification – Retirement Income (Hometown Heroes and Veterans Act of 2018)
+
+## 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/sb0996f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Peters — primary (person)
+- Astle — cosponsor (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Currie — cosponsor (person)
+- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
+- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
+- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
+- Kasemeyer — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
+- King — cosponsor (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
+- Manno — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Muse — cosponsor (person)
+- Norman — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Zucker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-05** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-07** Hearing 3/14 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-12** Hearing canceled
+- **2018-03-12** Hearing 3/14 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {109630/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-20** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-22** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-05** Favorable with Amendments {445863/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-05** Floor Amendment {213220/1 (Delegate D. Barnes) Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
+- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 573 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/245e3acd-2ae8-4c42-9b5f-949ec32f82d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+