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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Insurance – Contracts and Policies – Educational and Promotional Materials and Articles of Merchandise"
+description: "Insurance – Contracts and Policies – Educational and Promotional Materials and Articles of Merchandise"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 1083"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1083 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance - Other than Health", "Insurance - Health", "Advertising", "Consumer Protection", "Contracts", "Education", "Gifts", "Insurance", "Prices"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Davis"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-07"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ab41c72-7292-48da-8166-ed66c4cc13ad"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1083&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "972b442814fd3b5e58be05ca2ef9d6f004870c5d3d43fcba866b85585da4311b"
+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 1083 (2018) — Insurance – Contracts and Policies – Educational and Promotional Materials and Articles of Merchandise
+
+## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1083f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Davis — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-07** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {163795/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-09** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-13** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-29** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 485 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2ab41c72-7292-48da-8166-ed66c4cc13ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+