---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax – Subtraction Modification – Retirement Income (Hometown Heroes and Veterans Act of 2018)"
description: "Income Tax – Subtraction Modification – Retirement Income (Hometown Heroes and Veterans Act of 2018)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 996"
citation: "Maryland SB 996 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Armed Forces", "Correctional Officers", "Elderly Persons", "Exemptions", "Income Tax", "Juvenile Facilities", "Retirement Systems", "Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peters"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-05"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/245e3acd-2ae8-4c42-9b5f-949ec32f82d5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB996&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "194380cd01e52eff5d461ac27372e0c78a64ba3d4207af42303ad8cdd0b9e9d8"
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 996 (2018) — Income Tax – Subtraction Modification – Retirement Income (Hometown Heroes and Veterans Act of 2018)

## 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/sb0996f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Peters — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Kasemeyer — cosponsor (person)
- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Muse — cosponsor (person)
- Norman — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-05** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 3/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-12** Hearing canceled
- **2018-03-12** Hearing 3/14 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {109630/1 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 {445863/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Floor Amendment {213220/1 (Delegate D. Barnes) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **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 573 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/245e3acd-2ae8-4c42-9b5f-949ec32f82d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).