---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local Earned Income Tax Credit - Calculation - County Income Tax Rate"
description: "Local Earned Income Tax Credit - Calculation - County Income Tax Rate"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 614"
citation: "Maryland HB 614 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Office of the Comptroller"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a4ac922-541c-4c2b-a304-0021911fe660"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0614?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "6aa6370995c53232bfd981d21dfa7305db7a9bd0b2337818bcd971558897ad30"
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 614 (2025) — Local Earned Income Tax Credit - Calculation - County Income Tax Rate

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Local Earned Income Tax Credit - Calculation - County Income Tax Rate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_629_hb0614t.pdf)
2. **First - Local Earned Income Tax Credit - Calculation - County Income Tax Rate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0614f.pdf)
3. **Third - Local Earned Income Tax Credit - Calculation - County Income Tax Rate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0614t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair, Ways and Means Committee — primary (organization)
- Office of the Comptroller — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-23** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-24** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-28** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-05** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 629 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a4ac922-541c-4c2b-a304-0021911fe660`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).