---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax - Child Tax Credit and Expansion of the Earned Income Credit"
description: "Income Tax - Child Tax Credit and Expansion of the Earned Income Credit"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 218"
citation: "Maryland SB 218 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["King"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 29
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2020-08-21"
last_action: "2021-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7e3b441-7dbe-4882-984c-8dc9c9409f4b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0218?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "8c4142554fb3c70af7145dcb013d08569c37481b011f5c9f3c45aac9db2cd37f"
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 218 (2021) — Income Tax - Child Tax Credit and Expansion of the Earned Income Credit

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Income Tax - Child Tax Credit and Expansion of the Earned Income Credit** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_40_sb0218t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Child Tax Credit** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0218f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Child Tax Credit** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0218t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **91–44** (pass) · lower
- FLA Del. Thiam /423925/1 — **47–92** (fail) · lower
- Maryland Child Tax Credit — **32–15** (pass) · upper
- FLA Del. Grammer /743420/1 — **53–86** (fail) · lower
- FLA Del. Saab /673221/1 — **46–88** (fail) · lower
- FLA Del. Pippy /233929/1 — **46–92** (fail) · lower
- Floor Amendment Simonaire /833323/1 — **16–31** (fail) · upper
- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **32–15** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- King — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-08-21** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-13** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2020-12-22** Hearing 1/20 at 11:00 a.m.
- **2021-01-12** Hearing canceled
- **2021-01-12** Hearing 1/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2021-01-18** Hearing canceled
- **2021-01-18** Hearing 1/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2021-02-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-16** Motion Laid Over (Senator Simonaire) Adopted
- **2021-02-17** Favorable with Amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-17** Committee Amendment {
- **2021-02-17** Floor Amendment {
- **2021-02-17** Floor Amendment {
- **2021-02-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-02-19** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-02-19** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-19** Hearing 2/23 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-02-24** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-25** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-25** Second Reading Passed
- **2021-02-26** Floor Amendment {
- **2021-02-26** Floor Amendment {
- **2021-02-26** Floor Amendment {
- **2021-02-26** Floor Amendment {
- **2021-02-26** Motion Vote Previous Question (Delegate Lierman) Adopted
- **2021-02-26** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-02-26** Returned Passed
- **2021-03-05** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(b) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 40 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d7e3b441-7dbe-4882-984c-8dc9c9409f4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).