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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Commercial Law – Credit Card Processors – Merchant Processing Agreements"
+description: "Commercial Law – Credit Card Processors – Merchant Processing Agreements"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 777"
+citation: "Maryland HB 777 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Commercial Law - Credit Regulation", "Commerce and Business", "Contracts", "Credit", "Disclosure", "Electronic Commerce", "Electronic Communication", "Fees", "Finance Companies", "Financial Regulation", "Division of", "Fines", "Interest", "Notices", "Penalties and Sentences", "Signatures", "Small Business"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Howard"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-02-08"
+last_action: "2019-04-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dcdbcd49-27cb-40a0-94cf-473876bf0db9"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB777&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "7c53a88bb5294389e405f03b1e11ff06187e6724fa538f291a77c9d34301bf2b"
+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 777 (2019) — Commercial Law – Credit Card Processors – Merchant Processing Agreements
+
+## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0777f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Howard — primary (person)
+- Beitzel — cosponsor (person)
+- Boteler — cosponsor (person)
+- Branch — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
+- Carey — cosponsor (person)
+- Charkoudian — cosponsor (person)
+- Chisholm — cosponsor (person)
+- Ciliberti — cosponsor (person)
+- Corderman — cosponsor (person)
+- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
+- Malone — cosponsor (person)
+- McComas — cosponsor (person)
+- McKay — cosponsor (person)
+- Qi — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Rose — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-08** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-11** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {953299/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-15** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-18** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-25** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-27** Floor Amendment {893522/1 (Senator Kramer) Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-03-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-28** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-01** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2019-04-01** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-01** Passed Enrolled
+- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 296 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dcdbcd49-27cb-40a0-94cf-473876bf0db9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+