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type: "Bill"
title: "Income Tax Credit - Wages Paid to Qualified Veteran Employees (Hire Our Veterans Act of 2017)"
description: "Income Tax Credit - Wages Paid to Qualified Veteran Employees (Hire Our Veterans Act of 2017)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 349"
citation: "Maryland HB 349 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "Commerce", "Department of", "Income Tax", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Small Business", "Tax Credits", "Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Miele"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-25"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4962f76-3acf-40ed-b2b3-2528d4e369c0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB349&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "43f301a2e66e1394d4e0d0ddd3f521a0c5804e20d165db9a8bf9df87b930e694"
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 349 (2017) — Income Tax Credit - Wages Paid to Qualified Veteran Employees (Hire Our Veterans Act of 2017)
## 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/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0349t.pdf)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **1380** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **1340** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **460** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Miele — primary (person)
- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
- Ali — cosponsor (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Aumann — cosponsor (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Ciliberti — cosponsor (person)
- Cluster — cosponsor (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Folden — cosponsor (person)
- Frush — cosponsor (person)
- Grammer — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- McConkey — cosponsor (person)
- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- S. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Sophocleus — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-25** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {165667/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-18** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-24** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {329033/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 181 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e4962f76-3acf-40ed-b2b3-2528d4e369c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).