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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Insurance - Risk Retention Groups - Revisions"
+description: "Insurance - Risk Retention Groups - Revisions"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 78"
+citation: "Maryland SB 78 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance - Other than Health", "Insurance - Health", "Auditors and Audits", "Committees and Commissions", "Contracts", "Disclosure", "Ethics", "Health Insurance", "Insurance Administration", "Insurance", "Notices"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-09-20"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a07415c-646f-48f5-a598-9f94043c5634"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB78&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "96af2da9a148c4cdf5acfba4b61fc29f10caf1de4c5db6cacc8938b421875c93"
+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 78 (2018) — Insurance - Risk Retention Groups - Revisions
+
+## 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/sb/sb0078f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chair — primary (person)
+- Finance Committee (By Request - Departmental - Maryland Insurance Administration) — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-09-20** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2018-01-10** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-03** Hearing 1/18 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-01-22** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-01-23** Favorable with Amendments {157374/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-01-23** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-01-25** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
+- **2018-01-26** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-28** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-29** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-30** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-02** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 667 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2a07415c-646f-48f5-a598-9f94043c5634`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+