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type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program - Account Clarifications"
description: "Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program - Account Clarifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 344"
citation: "Maryland SB 344 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Disabled", "Taxes - Income", "Committees and Commissions", "Disabilities", "Revenue and Taxes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Feldman and Zucker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-25"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7667c1d0-fb99-461c-ade5-c9a2f4fed7af"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB344&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "34ad8e243d97eeff1ba5b4d6f4a38e3125fe64b466cd4f4b2f4c1d0c3c9c38bc"
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 344 (2017) — Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program - Account Clarifications
## 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/sb/sb0344f.pdf)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **470** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **1400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Feldman and Zucker — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-25** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-27** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-20** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-23** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-24** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 133 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7667c1d0-fb99-461c-ade5-c9a2f4fed7af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).