---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Real Estate Commission - Real Estate Brokerage Services - Duties and Obligations"
description: "State Real Estate Commission - Real Estate Brokerage Services - Duties and Obligations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 760"
citation: "Maryland HB 760 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business Regulation and Occupations", "Agents and Brokers", "Committees and Commissions", "Notices", "Real Estate", "Real Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arentz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-02"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4917a1af-6462-45cd-801f-22700bc718dd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB760&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "bf8d4c3e94a99595219f36246e8d1db7db8dae9ad38c88ebb7b7df79479dec89"
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 760 (2017) — State Real Estate Commission - Real Estate Brokerage Services - Duties and Obligations

## 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/hb0760f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Arentz — primary (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Cluster — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Mautz — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-02** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {793590/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-16** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 350 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4917a1af-6462-45cd-801f-22700bc718dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).