---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax Credit - Wages Paid to Qualified Veteran Employees (Hire Our Veterans Act of 2017)"
description: "Income Tax Credit - Wages Paid to Qualified Veteran Employees (Hire Our Veterans Act of 2017)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 807"
citation: "Maryland SB 807 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Commerce", "Department of", "Income Tax", "Notices", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Small Business", "Tax Credits", "Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smith"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6bce09f7-49e0-4400-a95f-5d906e5fdeba"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB807&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "b5c6c47c24abe993a8ee7b2d19818e36cd2db18a5648cb6e23cafd36a4052b27"
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 807 (2017) — Income Tax Credit - Wages Paid to Qualified Veteran Employees (Hire Our Veterans Act of 2017)

## 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/sb0807t.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **141–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Smith — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Kasemeyer — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {569231/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-06** Rereferred to Ways and Means
- **2017-04-07** Hearing 4/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-08** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-08** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (141-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 180 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6bce09f7-49e0-4400-a95f-5d906e5fdeba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).