---
type: "Bill"
title: "Small Business Relief Tax Credit"
description: "Small Business Relief Tax Credit"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 134"
citation: "Maryland SB 134 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Assessments", "Commerce", "Department of", "Comptroller", "Data", "Income Tax", "Notices", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Salaries and Compensation", "Small Business", "Tax Credits", "Time", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["The President (By Request - Administration)"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-11"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/604b74e8-52cc-4530-92c5-4667ce8503c0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB134&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "c895dda95e994a94cc3880c4a3cd82a146099003ce3eb5adca4628affc67af31"
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 134 (2018) — Small Business Relief 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/sb/sb0134f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On third reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- The President (By Request - Administration) — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-11** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/21 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 {879233/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `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 {215566/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 571 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/604b74e8-52cc-4530-92c5-4667ce8503c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).