---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cybersecurity Incentive Tax Credits"
description: "Cybersecurity Incentive Tax Credits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 228"
citation: "Maryland SB 228 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Appropriations", "Assessments", "Commerce and Business", "Commerce", "Department of", "Committees and Commissions", "Comptroller", "Cybersecurity", "Investments", "Licenses", "Public Corporations and Instrumentalities", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Sunset", "Tax Credits", "Telecommunications and Information Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Guzzone"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-19"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c55fb48-6c1e-4fb1-902e-0666197a96f2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB228&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "153c1f16434b8b891fc45f7f658dd5d1f37230cf6a6b0961aed7245c9381a109"
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 228 (2018) — Cybersecurity Incentive Tax Credits

## 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/sb0228f.pdf)

## Votes

- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **111–23** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-19** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-19** Hearing 1/31 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {629236/1 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 {935666/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (111-23) `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 578 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6c55fb48-6c1e-4fb1-902e-0666197a96f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).