---
type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax Credit - Food Donations by Qualified Farms - Sunset Repeal and Alterations (Farmers Feeding Families Act)"
description: "Income Tax Credit - Food Donations by Qualified Farms - Sunset Repeal and Alterations (Farmers Feeding Families Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 584"
citation: "Maryland HB 584 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Attar", "Buckel", "Cardin", "Crutchfield", "D. Jones", "Ebersole", "Fair", "Feldmark", "Griffith", "Grossman", "Hartman", "Henson", "Hornberger", "Kaiser", "McCaskill", "McComas", "Miller", "Mireku-North", "Palakovich Carr", "Pasteur", "Patterson", "Qi", "Vogel", "Wells", "Wu"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-03"
last_action: "2023-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15494903-4d3e-4168-bba4-930c0bff5404"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0584?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "a4650397256d55e477f2dc2924d4f16c3c0a8b0cf561dee201efe7063ed1cce8"
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 584 (2023) — Income Tax Credit - Food Donations by Qualified Farms - Sunset Repeal and Alterations (Farmers Feeding Families Act)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Income Tax Credit - Food Donations by Qualified Farms - Sunset Repeal and Alterations (Farmers Feeding Families Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_454_hb0584t.pdf)
2. **First - Income Tax Credit - Food Donations by Qualified Farms - Extension (Farmers Feeding Families Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0584f.pdf)
3. **Third - Income Tax Credit - Food Donations by Qualified Farms - Sunset Repeal and Alterations (Farmers Feeding Families Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0584t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Attar — primary (person)
- Buckel — primary (person)
- Cardin — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Ebersole — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Feldmark — primary (person)
- Griffith — primary (person)
- Grossman — primary (person)
- Hartman — primary (person)
- Henson — primary (person)
- Hornberger — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- McCaskill — primary (person)
- McComas — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Mireku-North — primary (person)
- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Qi — primary (person)
- Vogel — primary (person)
- Wells — primary (person)
- Wu — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-03** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-03** Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-16** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-04-07** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2023-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2023-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 454 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/15494903-4d3e-4168-bba4-930c0bff5404`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).