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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Office of the Attorney General - Securities Commissioner - Asset Recovery for Exploited Seniors"
+description: "Office of the Attorney General - Securities Commissioner - Asset Recovery for Exploited Seniors"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 1506"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1506 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Commercial Law - Consumer Protection", "Attorney General", "Civil Actions", "Committees and Commissions", "Consumer Protection", "Crimes and Punishments", "Damages", "Elderly Persons", "Fraud", "Penalties and Sentences", "Securities", "Victims"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kramer"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-09"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4dfa56a6-75cb-4ca3-9e32-7976d040a202"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1506&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "88f8b70855c388af5356173492ce0f3c37785a85bf2464ba54dabb7a0ebcf76c"
+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 1506 (2018) — Office of the Attorney General - Securities Commissioner - Asset Recovery for Exploited Seniors
+
+## 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/hb1506f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **131–6** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kramer — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-09** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-09** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-06** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-07** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-07** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (131-6) `passage`
+- **2018-03-09** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-09** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-10** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 794 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4dfa56a6-75cb-4ca3-9e32-7976d040a202`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+