---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance - Risk Management and Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Act"
description: "Insurance - Risk Management and Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 8"
citation: "Maryland SB 8 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Other than Health", "Assessments", "Committees and Commissions", "Communications", "Contracts", "Insurance", "Notices", "Penalties and Sentences", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2016-09-22"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b6a8686-c955-4602-83b0-118b4e342a99"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB8&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "7da9013ec7e276f2a8fa30edad016d2fd5c3445b17e3c9ef59e9ba8aaca1133f"
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 8 (2017) — Insurance - Risk Management and Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Act

## 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/sb0008f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **136–0** (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.

- **2016-09-22** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-10** Hearing 1/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Favorable with Amendments {277270/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-23** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-24** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-01** 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 with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-29** Favorable with Amendments {763791/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-30** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-31** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-31** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 36 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7b6a8686-c955-4602-83b0-118b4e342a99`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).