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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: "SB 540"
+citation: "Maryland SB 540 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Maryland Judicial Conference"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2026-02-04"
+last_action: "2026-05-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfedd4db-acdc-4e4b-ac04-cc7699447f7f"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0540?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "6f582eddef129f9877945f652b3397f1ce931d7e97a3789a3a767584fde5970c"
+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 540 (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_478_sb0540e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Home Detention Monitoring Agencies - Promotion and Solicitation of Business - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0540e.pdf)
+3. **First - Home Detention Monitoring Agencies - Promotion and Solicitation of Business - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0540f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Home Detention Monitoring Agencies - Promotion and Solicitation of Business - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0540t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **42–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chair, Judicial Proceedings Committee — primary (organization)
+- Maryland Judicial Conference — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-02-04** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-05** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-03-02** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-03** Second Reading Passed
+- **2026-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-03-09** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2026-04-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-08** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-10** Senate Concurs House Amendments
+- **2026-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-10** Passed Enrolled
+- **2026-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 478 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfedd4db-acdc-4e4b-ac04-cc7699447f7f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+