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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Income Tax - Child Tax Credit and Expansion of the Earned Income Credit"
+description: "Income Tax - Child Tax Credit and Expansion of the Earned Income Credit"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 218"
+citation: "Maryland SB 218 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["King"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2020-08-21"
+last_action: "2021-03-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7e3b441-7dbe-4882-984c-8dc9c9409f4b"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0218?ys=2021RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "8c4142554fb3c70af7145dcb013d08569c37481b011f5c9f3c45aac9db2cd37f"
+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 218 (2021) — Income Tax - Child Tax Credit and Expansion of the Earned Income Credit
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Income Tax - Child Tax Credit and Expansion of the Earned Income Credit** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_40_sb0218t.pdf)
+2. **First - Maryland Child Tax Credit** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0218f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Maryland Child Tax Credit** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0218t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **91–44** (pass) · lower
+- FLA Del. Thiam /423925/1 — **47–92** (fail) · lower
+- Maryland Child Tax Credit — **32–15** (pass) · upper
+- FLA Del. Grammer /743420/1 — **53–86** (fail) · lower
+- FLA Del. Saab /673221/1 — **46–88** (fail) · lower
+- FLA Del. Pippy /233929/1 — **46–92** (fail) · lower
+- Floor Amendment Simonaire /833323/1 — **16–31** (fail) · upper
+- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **32–15** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- King — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-08-21** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2021-01-13** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2020-12-22** Hearing 1/20 at 11:00 a.m.
+- **2021-01-12** Hearing canceled
+- **2021-01-12** Hearing 1/20 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2021-01-18** Hearing canceled
+- **2021-01-18** Hearing 1/27 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2021-02-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-02-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-02-16** Motion Laid Over (Senator Simonaire) Adopted
+- **2021-02-17** Favorable with Amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-02-17** Committee Amendment {
+- **2021-02-17** Floor Amendment {
+- **2021-02-17** Floor Amendment {
+- **2021-02-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2021-02-19** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-02-19** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-19** Hearing 2/23 at 1:30 p.m.
+- **2021-02-24** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-02-25** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-02-25** Second Reading Passed
+- **2021-02-26** Floor Amendment {
+- **2021-02-26** Floor Amendment {
+- **2021-02-26** Floor Amendment {
+- **2021-02-26** Floor Amendment {
+- **2021-02-26** Motion Vote Previous Question (Delegate Lierman) Adopted
+- **2021-02-26** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-02-26** Returned Passed
+- **2021-03-05** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(b) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 40 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d7e3b441-7dbe-4882-984c-8dc9c9409f4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+