---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor Vehicle Liability Insurance Policies - Placement and Reinstatement"
description: "Motor Vehicle Liability Insurance Policies - Placement and Reinstatement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 290"
citation: "Maryland SB 290 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Other than Health", "Boundaries", "Committees and Commissions", "Drivers' Licenses", "Fees", "For-Hire Driving", "Liability", "Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund", "Motor Vehicles", "Motor Vehicle Insurance", "Residency", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Middleton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6169b03-0ebe-40b0-8f71-4cb3586ff945"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB290&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "e3410677d7e09d8f8fd3de3196bb708bfec7d1082d184869dfc6a2ad8f4e902d"
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 290 (2017) — Motor Vehicle Liability Insurance Policies - Placement and Reinstatement

## 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/sb0290f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Middleton — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — 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`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {877273/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-21** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 725 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6169b03-0ebe-40b0-8f71-4cb3586ff945`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).