---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax – Film Production Activity Tax Credit – Alterations"
description: "Income Tax – Film Production Activity Tax Credit – Alterations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 1154"
citation: "Maryland SB 1154 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Auditors and Audits", "Commerce", "Department of", "Income Tax", "Motion Pictures", "Prices", "Revenue and Taxes", "Salaries and Compensation", "Tax Credits", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peters"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-02-19"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/edaa8bc4-9daf-46cc-848d-fed74c4b7258"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB1154&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "a170002d3f22c34aa4cad0fb42828651ced4c77366b7be8a56ee204b98b3cdd7"
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 1154 (2018) — Income Tax – Film Production Activity Tax Credit – Alterations

## 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/sb/sb1154f.pdf)

## Votes

- On third reading — **39–6** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **97–36** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–84** (fail) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Peters — primary (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
- Kasemeyer — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-19** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-23** Rereferred to Budget and Taxation
- **2018-02-28** Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {239034/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (45-1) `passage`
- **2018-03-20** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-22** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Favorable with Amendments {405165/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-06** Floor Amendment {733228/1 (Delegate Saab) Rejected (46-84) `amendment-failure`
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (97-36) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (39-6) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 595 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/edaa8bc4-9daf-46cc-848d-fed74c4b7258`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).