---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance - Public Adjusters"
description: "Insurance - Public Adjusters"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 136"
citation: "Maryland HB 136 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Other than Health", "Advertising", "Committees and Commissions", "Contracts", "Disclosure", "Escrow Accounts", "Ethics", "Examinations", "Fees", "Forms", "Insurance", "Licenses", "Privacy", "Records", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3508e56c-c37e-40be-b827-acb0f59311a5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB136&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "97a4a3a67c2b503bf10cd43840b3d6cfac34d2dc3ef79b4a2e2666fe22a5242a"
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 136 (2017) — Insurance - Public Adjusters

## 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/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0136f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Economic Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Maryland Insurance Administration) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-18** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-18** Hearing 1/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-01-30** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-31** Favorable with Amendments {343399/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-31** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-02** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-03** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 106 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3508e56c-c37e-40be-b827-acb0f59311a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).