---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax Credit - Venison Donation"
description: "Income Tax Credit - Venison Donation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 447"
citation: "Maryland HB 447 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen", "Ruth", "Ziegler"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-22"
last_action: "2024-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b769f72c-ea06-44a1-a7f2-de5b81a2d4e3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0447?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "8de7af7031905dedb02846bbb8b0534a518f00daf3864377a656b6ffd90acac3"
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 447 (2024) — Income Tax Credit - Venison Donation

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Income Tax Credit - Venison Donation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_770_hb0447t.pdf)
2. **First - Income Tax Credit - Venison Donation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0447f.pdf)
3. **Third - Income Tax Credit - Venison Donation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0447t.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- Ziegler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-22** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-23** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-06** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Referred Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-08** Rereferred to Budget and Taxation
- **2024-04-08** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 770 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b769f72c-ea06-44a1-a7f2-de5b81a2d4e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).