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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Insurance - Penalties - Unauthorized Insurers, Insurance Producers, and Public Adjusters"
+description: "Insurance - Penalties - Unauthorized Insurers, Insurance Producers, and Public Adjusters"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 229"
+citation: "Maryland SB 229 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-09-15"
+last_action: "2024-04-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a07a08bd-eaff-444b-912a-ddbe20969d3a"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0229?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "c9b2ad5dd89e52805d4def69c155e621ed759c4e2de215f2161dd4ecdaa842e5"
+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 229 (2024) — Insurance - Penalties - Unauthorized Insurers, Insurance Producers, and Public Adjusters
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Insurance - Penalties - Unauthorized Insurers, Insurance Producers, and Public Adjusters** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_120_sb0229t.pdf)
+2. **First - Insurance - Penalties - Unauthorized Insurers, Insurance Producers, and Public Adjusters** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0229f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Insurance - Penalties - Unauthorized Insurers, Insurance Producers, and Public Adjusters** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0229t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **100–36** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chair, Finance Committee — primary (organization)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-09-15** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2024-01-10** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-09** Hearing 1/24 at 1:30 p.m.
+- **2024-02-05** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-06** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-06** Second Reading Passed
+- **2024-02-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-02-12** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-28** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-28** Second Reading Passed
+- **2024-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2024-04-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 120 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a07a08bd-eaff-444b-912a-ddbe20969d3a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+