---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax - Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit - Alterations"
description: "Income Tax - Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit - Alterations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 870"
citation: "Maryland SB 870 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Child Care", "Income Tax", "Salaries and Compensation", "Support of Dependents", "Tax Credits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["King"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-07"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1baed1a-b504-4626-a2fe-54ebfc0af4ec"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB870&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "cffe578d7dfea6184d9009cec458ffa202dee269d58d5c52d768a4916753e32e"
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 870 (2019) — Income Tax - Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit - Alterations

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0870f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- King — primary (person)
- Augustine — cosponsor (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Elfreth — cosponsor (person)
- Ellis — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hester — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-07** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Rereferred to Budget and Taxation
- **2019-02-14** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-06** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-11** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-12** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-15** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {655767/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2019-04-05** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 432 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a1baed1a-b504-4626-a2fe-54ebfc0af4ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).