---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax Credit - Venison Donation - Feed the Hungry Organizations"
description: "Income Tax Credit - Venison Donation - Feed the Hungry Organizations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 7"
citation: "Maryland HB 7 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Comptroller", "Food", "Gifts", "Hunting", "Income Tax", "Natural Resources", "Department of", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Reports", "Sunset", "Tax Credits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mautz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-08-15"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b2064656-acde-42f3-8382-0185e2d24390"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB7&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "44177f85feb0cbd9b544f930f46d2da9e84819885f996fd931f38f496536e829"
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 7 (2018) — Income Tax Credit - Venison Donation - Feed the Hungry Organizations

## 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/hb0007f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mautz — primary (person)
- Beitzel — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- Carey — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-08-15** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-03** Hearing 1/17 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {415467/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-16** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-16** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-19** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-23** Hearing canceled
- **2018-03-23** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-23** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-23** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-26** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-27** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 172 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b2064656-acde-42f3-8382-0185e2d24390`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).