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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Home Detention Monitoring Agencies - Promotion and Solicitation of Business - Prohibition"
+description: "Home Detention Monitoring Agencies - Promotion and Solicitation of Business - Prohibition"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 899"
+citation: "Maryland HB 899 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Maryland Judicial Conference"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-02-04"
+last_action: "2026-05-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e9e1be40-2ab1-4591-97d7-0e420cab862f"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0899?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "bbddebb1cee49a12361bc937353a078d3e998637b7742208129bc350de26d4d2"
+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 899 (2026) — Home Detention Monitoring Agencies - Promotion and Solicitation of Business - Prohibition
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Home Detention Monitoring Agencies - Promotion and Solicitation of Business - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_477_hb0899t.pdf)
+2. **First - Home Detention Monitoring Agencies - Promotion and Solicitation of Business - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0899f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Home Detention Monitoring Agencies - Promotion and Solicitation of Business - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0899t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **128–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chair, Judiciary Committee — primary (organization)
+- Maryland Judicial Conference — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-02-04** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-05** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-03-02** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-03-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-03-05** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2026-04-06** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-07** Second Reading Passed
+- **2026-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2026-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 477 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e9e1be40-2ab1-4591-97d7-0e420cab862f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+