---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax Credit - Qualified Research and Development Expenses - Application for and Procedure to Claim Credit"
description: "Income Tax Credit - Qualified Research and Development Expenses - Application for and Procedure to Claim Credit"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 563"
citation: "Maryland SB 563 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Commerce", "Department of", "Income Tax", "Industry and Technology", "Tax Credits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Serafini"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-12-08"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/738c267b-d9a6-46f0-b764-213f4eb61bee"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB563&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "bf05276c5e49ebd821303d8062c5d98957e4f3e3fe14439236fae0caaf82a0fe"
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 563 (2018) — Income Tax Credit - Qualified Research and Development Expenses - Application for and Procedure to Claim 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/sb0563f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Serafini — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-31** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-05** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-12** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-09** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-12-08** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 609 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/738c267b-d9a6-46f0-b764-213f4eb61bee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).