---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Insurance Administration - Sunset Review - Required Reports and Repeal of Preliminary Evaluation Requirement"
description: "Maryland Insurance Administration - Sunset Review - Required Reports and Repeal of Preliminary Evaluation Requirement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 189"
citation: "Maryland SB 189 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Insurance - Other than Health", "Assessments", "Committees and Commissions", "General Assembly", "Insurance Administration", "Insurance", "Legislative Services", "Department of", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Sunset"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["The President (By Request - Department of Legislative Services)"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79b72afa-0779-48a0-898c-c2897a52447a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB189&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "ca88266d089a2a3184173f3531e5f43cbd1bc7b72ed993feb514c8dabb32d060"
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 189 (2017) — Maryland Insurance Administration - Sunset Review - Required Reports and Repeal of Preliminary Evaluation Requirement

## 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/sb0189f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- The President (By Request - Department of Legislative Services) — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-18** Hearing 1/31 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-01-19** Hearing canceled
- **2017-01-19** Hearing 2/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-06** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-07** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-09** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-10** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 65 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79b72afa-0779-48a0-898c-c2897a52447a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).