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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Commercial Law - Consumer Protection - Door-to-Door Sales"
+description: "Commercial Law - Consumer Protection - Door-to-Door Sales"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 959"
+citation: "Maryland HB 959 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Commercial Law - Consumer Protection", "Commerce and Business", "Committees and Commissions", "Consumer Protection", "Contracts", "Home Improvement", "Housing", "Notices", "Real Property", "Retail Sales"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kramer"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-02-06"
+last_action: "2017-04-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1003490-cac6-4ee5-ae5d-1fff20ccadda"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB959&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "c427c255cba88073edfe589e4d7e47b3b7196f06a14a933fb6920e4e23373256"
+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 959 (2017) — Commercial Law - Consumer Protection - Door-to-Door Sales
+
+## 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/hb0959f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **137–2** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kramer — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-06** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-06** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {663997/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-18** Third Reading Passed (137-2) `passage`
+- **2017-03-20** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-21** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-31** Returned Passed
+- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 94 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a1003490-cac6-4ee5-ae5d-1fff20ccadda`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+