---
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: "SB 534"
citation: "Maryland SB 534 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Other than Health", "Credit", "Discrimination", "Education", "For-Hire Driving", "Marriage", "Motor Vehicle Insurance", "Prices", "Privacy", "Spouses", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Benson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-01"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1d4f2395-4dbf-4835-893d-ad54432a2ab7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB534&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "ebc8733349038359dc4588b178b17717e7fab786e0344655bb57ff4e57b57558"
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 534 (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/sb/sb0534f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Benson — primary (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
- Muse — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-01** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {287872/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-15** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **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
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 640 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1d4f2395-4dbf-4835-893d-ad54432a2ab7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).