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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Income Tax Subtraction Modification – Death Benefits – Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters"
+description: "Income Tax Subtraction Modification – Death Benefits – Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 897"
+citation: "Maryland SB 897 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bailey", "Benson", "Carozza", "Corderman", "Elfreth", "Folden", "Guzzone", "Hettleman", "Jackson", "Jennings", "King", "Mautz", "McCray", "Rosapepe", "Salling", "Zucker"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-02-02"
+last_action: "2024-05-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9cb2bf2d-ebe8-4288-a82e-4d72f66a88b0"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0897?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "bc06ecd6f1c1af87e235c07be31e4565bc40dea7765373cbfb6e1175f7556548"
+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 897 (2024) — Income Tax Subtraction Modification – Death Benefits – Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Income Tax Subtraction Modification – Death Benefits – Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_417_sb0897t.pdf)
+2. **First - Income Tax Subtraction Modification – Death Benefits – Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0897f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Income Tax Subtraction Modification – Death Benefits – Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0897t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bailey — primary (person)
+- Benson — primary (person)
+- Carozza — primary (person)
+- Corderman — primary (person)
+- Elfreth — primary (person)
+- Folden — primary (person)
+- Guzzone — primary (person)
+- Hettleman — primary (person)
+- Jackson — primary (person)
+- Jennings — primary (person)
+- King — primary (person)
+- Mautz — primary (person)
+- McCray — primary (person)
+- Rosapepe — primary (person)
+- Salling — primary (person)
+- Zucker — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-02-02** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-06** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-14** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-15** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-28** Hearing canceled
+- **2024-03-28** Hearing 3/28 at 12:00 p.m.
+- **2024-04-01** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-01** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
+- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 417 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9cb2bf2d-ebe8-4288-a82e-4d72f66a88b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+