---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Insurance Administration - Rate Making for Automobile and Homeowner's Insurance"
description: "Maryland Insurance Administration - Rate Making for Automobile and Homeowner's Insurance"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 289"
citation: "Maryland SB 289 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Other than Health", "Boundaries", "Committees and Commissions", "Data", "Disclosure", "General Assembly", "Governor", "Insurance Administration", "Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund", "Motor Vehicles", "Motor Vehicle Insurance", "Prices", "Public Information", "Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Middleton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a05f500-460f-4334-adf5-363d2de86805"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB289&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "1723bf9b3e1a54dde5f0ea21e681ba9128d85b121233cb2a6d45ad4f60801ffb"
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 289 (2017) — Maryland Insurance Administration - Rate Making for Automobile and Homeowner's Insurance

## 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/sb0289f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Middleton — primary (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-20** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-13** Favorable with Amendments {957173/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-15** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-15** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-22** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Hearing canceled
- **2017-03-17** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-29** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-30** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 514 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4a05f500-460f-4334-adf5-363d2de86805`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).