---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax - Student Loan Tax Credit"
description: "Income Tax - Student Loan Tax Credit"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 593"
citation: "Maryland HB 593 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Higher Education", "Taxes - Income", "Income Tax", "Loans", "Scholarships and Student Financial Aid", "Tax Credits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hettleman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-29"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4811bd35-30d1-4266-b6d6-42c708c617b3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB593&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "8408688ece108d09940b4c8978acce336764d288d32c2611be54e2808732358d"
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 593 (2018) — Income Tax - Student Loan Tax Credit

## 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/hb0593f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **134–2** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **11–35** (fail) · upper
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hettleman — primary (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Ali — cosponsor (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Cluster — cosponsor (person)
- Conaway — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- J. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- McKay — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-29** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-29** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {405667/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-16** Third Reading Passed (134-2) `passage`
- **2018-03-16** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-19** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-04** Floor Amendment {123929/1 (Senator Simonaire) Rejected (11-35) `amendment-failure`
- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 382 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4811bd35-30d1-4266-b6d6-42c708c617b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).