---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax - Personal Exemptions - Alteration"
description: "Income Tax - Personal Exemptions - Alteration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 184"
citation: "Maryland SB 184 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Comptroller", "Exemptions", "Income Tax", "Reports", "Spouses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kasemeyer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-01-17"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c928d9ee-bb23-4be8-968b-7d264aacb19b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB184&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "8c3e71415c20563ff06bd670da6cd4ffeecb9b1d1f5e662ac2db2e1c6de649e4"
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 184 (2018) — Income Tax - Personal Exemptions - Alteration

## 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/sb0184f.pdf)

## Votes

- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kasemeyer — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Brochin — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Hough — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Muse — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
- Norman — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
- Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Waugh — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — 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.
- **2018-01-31** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-01** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-01** Special Order until 2/2 (Senator Ready) Adopted
- **2018-02-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-02** Floor Amendment {513129/1 (Senator Ready) Adopted (47-0) `amendment-passage`
- **2018-02-02** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-06** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-07** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-05** Hearing 3/21 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 {695765/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 575 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c928d9ee-bb23-4be8-968b-7d264aacb19b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).