---
type: "Bill"
title: "Economic Development - Job Creation Tax Credit - Alteration"
description: "Economic Development - Job Creation Tax Credit - Alteration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 873"
citation: "Maryland SB 873 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic and Community Development", "Claims", "Commerce and Business", "Commerce", "Department of", "Commercial Rehabilitation", "Committees and Commissions", "Disclosure", "Insurance", "Labor", "Licensing", "and Regulation", "Department of", "Reports", "Tax Credits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Madaleno (By Request - Tax Credit Evaluation Committee) and Kasemeyer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6632e1ce-b212-4f45-be5c-a737c171819e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB873&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "e953548f54f91ab0e2f8c819dd688452ef46613a06471c112d916a2bc0dd0141"
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 873 (2017) — Economic Development - Job Creation Tax Credit - Alteration

## 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/sb0873f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Madaleno (By Request - Tax Credit Evaluation Committee) and Kasemeyer — primary (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- King — 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 3/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-20** Favorable with Amendments {839930/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-21** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-22** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-04** Rereferred to Ways and Means
- **2017-04-04** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 489 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6632e1ce-b212-4f45-be5c-a737c171819e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).