---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax - Personal Exemptions - Alteration"
description: "Income Tax - Personal Exemptions - Alteration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 365"
citation: "Maryland HB 365 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Exemptions", "Federal Government", "Income Tax", "Reports", "Spouses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Walker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-24"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2990deb1-8ca0-4b6a-abb0-5828e9b23b63"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB365&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "4244852d7b35f2570f84a5461062eb8767be1771f5ba0516505e9929b2709903"
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 HB 365 (2018) — Income Tax - Personal Exemptions - 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0365f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Walker — primary (person)
- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Ali — cosponsor (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Barve — cosponsor (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Branch — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Busch — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Carey — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Clippinger — cosponsor (person)
- Conaway — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
- Frick — cosponsor (person)
- Frush — cosponsor (person)
- Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
- Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Haynes — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Knotts — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Proctor — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Sophocleus — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Vallario — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-24** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Favorable with Amendments {865567/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-23** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-23** Favorable with Amendments {589834/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-23** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-26** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-04** House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2018-04-04** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2018-04-04** Conference Committee Appointed
- **2018-04-04** Delegates Walker, Buckel, and Ebersole
- **2018-04-05** Motion Recede (Senator Kasemeyer) Adopted
- **2018-04-05** Committee Amendment {589834/1 Withdrawn
- **2018-04-05** Senate Recede
- **2018-04-05** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 574 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2990deb1-8ca0-4b6a-abb0-5828e9b23b63`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).