---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax - Income Tax Reconciliation Program - Established (Maryland Fair Taxation for Justice-Involved Individuals Act)"
description: "Income Tax - Income Tax Reconciliation Program - Established (Maryland Fair Taxation for Justice-Involved Individuals Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 295"
citation: "Maryland SB 295 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCray"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-10"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a7da588c-4ecd-472d-bcc2-88e8c6846b6f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0295?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "2b1888c74368097acbf5073cea87ba169637a27f75120e7340a3638b2ddf6014"
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 295 (2025) — Income Tax - Income Tax Reconciliation Program - Established (Maryland Fair Taxation for Justice-Involved Individuals Act)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Income Tax - Income Tax Reconciliation Program - Established (Maryland Fair Taxation for Justice-Involved Individuals Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_735_sb0295t.pdf)
2. **First - Income Tax - Income Tax Reconciliation Program - Established (Maryland Fair Taxation for Justice-Involved Individuals Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0295f.pdf)
3. **Third - Income Tax - Income Tax Reconciliation Program - Established (Maryland Fair Taxation for Justice-Involved Individuals Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0295t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **41–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **104–36** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse Receded) — **100–34** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McCray — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-10** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Reassigned to Budget and Taxation
- **2025-01-15** Hearing 1/22 at 10:30 a.m.
- **2025-02-05** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-06** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-02-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-11** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2025-04-07** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2025-04-07** Motion Recede (Delegate Atterbeary) Adopted
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** House Recede
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 735 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a7da588c-4ecd-472d-bcc2-88e8c6846b6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).