---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax – Subtraction Modification – Living Organ Donors"
description: "Income Tax – Subtraction Modification – Living Organ Donors"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 96"
citation: "Maryland HB 96 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Exemptions", "Income Tax", "Organ Donorship"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Busch"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-12"
last_action: "2018-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1b755b06-9942-43af-bcc1-88af0b8bb7f2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB96&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "705917e643db9f829e2255f1228ff6eedf2970b2270163448009919f43cb6210"
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 96 (2018) — Income Tax – Subtraction Modification – Living Organ Donors

## 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/hb0096f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Busch — primary (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-12** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-20** Favorable with Amendments {545564/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-20** Floor Amendment {323320/1 (Delegate Rey) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2018-02-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-22** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-23** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **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
- **2018-04-10** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 36 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1b755b06-9942-43af-bcc1-88af0b8bb7f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).