---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax - Credit for Nurse Practitioner or Licensed Physician in Preceptorship Program - Alterations"
description: "Income Tax - Credit for Nurse Practitioner or Licensed Physician in Preceptorship Program - Alterations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 436"
citation: "Maryland SB 436 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Health Occupations", "Assessments", "Committees and Commissions", "Continuing Education", "Emergency Bills", "Fees", "Health", "Income Tax", "Licenses", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Nurses", "Physicians", "Tax Credits", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eckardt"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f2c397c-c4fc-4030-8954-5f3cbf2eabe4"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB436&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "ca2737713f9aebfb2dd06dfdabc639b45b97ac6df739219f5298fde356d58f4f"
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 436 (2017) — Income Tax - Credit for Nurse Practitioner or Licensed Physician in Preceptorship Program - Alterations

## 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/2017RS/bills/sb/sb0436f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eckardt — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-30** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** Favorable with Amendments {679636/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-03** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-06** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-07** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 234 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4f2c397c-c4fc-4030-8954-5f3cbf2eabe4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).