---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax - Maryland Earned Income Tax Credit Assistance Program for Low-Income Families"
description: "Income Tax - Maryland Earned Income Tax Credit Assistance Program for Low-Income Families"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 252"
citation: "Maryland HB 252 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Barnes", "Ebersole", "Feldmark", "Lierman", "Palakovich Carr", "Patterson", "Washington"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-13"
last_action: "2022-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3bf48198-ac31-47c1-9cd5-e52e535585bb"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0252?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "9d32646e044e2f567db5501d238cc55a90da00b8053990b05ef9afee5a778de1"
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 HB 252 (2022) — Income Tax - Maryland Earned Income Tax Credit Assistance Program for Low-Income Families

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Income Tax - Maryland Earned Income Tax Credit Assistance Program for Low-Income Families** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_110_hb0252t.pdf)
2. **First - Income Tax - Return Preparation Assistance Program for Low-Income Families** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0252f.pdf)
3. **Third - Income Tax - Maryland Earned Income Tax Credit Assistance Program for Low-Income Families** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0252t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **103–26** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- D. Barnes — primary (person)
- Ebersole — primary (person)
- Feldmark — primary (person)
- Lierman — primary (person)
- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Washington — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-13** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-13** Hearing 2/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-22** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-04-04** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2022-04-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 110 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3bf48198-ac31-47c1-9cd5-e52e535585bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).