---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance - Charitable Gift Annuities - Special Permit Holders - Required Financial Statements"
description: "Insurance - Charitable Gift Annuities - Special Permit Holders - Required Financial Statements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 15"
citation: "Maryland SB 15 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Other than Health", "Auditors and Audits", "Committees and Commissions", "Gifts", "Insurance", "Licenses", "Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2016-09-23"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59f126aa-4e99-454b-ae6b-e28be9452f5f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB15&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "015f4bc07fd4cda8a34aab9ea6f226c088bde5b9dfacb9e0f711ac917748c9a1"
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 15 (2017) — Insurance - Charitable Gift Annuities - Special Permit Holders - Required Financial Statements

## 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/sb/sb0015f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2016-09-23** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-05** Hearing 1/12 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2017-01-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-17** Favorable with Amendments {657274/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-01-19** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-01-20** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-22** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Hearing canceled
- **2017-03-17** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable with Amendments {883393/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-06** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 504 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/59f126aa-4e99-454b-ae6b-e28be9452f5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).