---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor Vehicle Insurance - Discrimination in Underwriting and Rating - Prohibitions"
description: "Motor Vehicle Insurance - Discrimination in Underwriting and Rating - Prohibitions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 916"
citation: "Maryland HB 916 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Other than Health", "Credit", "Discrimination", "Education", "Marriage", "Motor Vehicle Insurance", "Prices", "Spouses", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sydnor"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-06"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6348b59b-85bc-4e27-bead-159e73dfe124"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB916&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "a749a542e4baef002bb68951d5f98af74143801cd6e68bc3bd1ad46425da4fd3"
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 916 (2017) — Motor Vehicle Insurance - Discrimination in Underwriting and Rating - Prohibitions

## 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/hb0916f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Sydnor — primary (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-06** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-06** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-10** Favorable with Amendments {843390/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-14** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-15** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** 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
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 639 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6348b59b-85bc-4e27-bead-159e73dfe124`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).