---
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: "SB 182"
citation: "Maryland SB 182 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Comptroller", "Food", "Hunting", "Income Tax", "Natural Resources", "Department of", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Reports", "Sunset", "Tax Credits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Astle"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-17"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47800baf-8663-4570-a636-2a7922efdc74"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB182&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "8644bf2f8c3a359031a6145fa4ac5cce4dbfacf5076a9d4699b049e620f4275f"
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 182 (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/sb/sb0182f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Astle — primary (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Norman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-17** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-17** Hearing 1/30 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2018-02-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-13** Favorable with Amendments {149832/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-15** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-16** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-05** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (138-1) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 173 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47800baf-8663-4570-a636-2a7922efdc74`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).