---
type: "Bill"
title: "Commissioner of Financial Regulation and State Collection Agency Licensing Board - Surety Bond Requirements for Licensees and Registrants"
description: "Commissioner of Financial Regulation and State Collection Agency Licensing Board - Surety Bond Requirements for Licensees and Registrants"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 924"
citation: "Maryland SB 924 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business Regulation and Occupations", "Financial Institutions", "Bonds", "Claims", "Committees and Commissions", "Debt Collection", "Financial Regulation", "Division of", "Licenses", "Loans", "Mortgages", "Registration"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Serafini"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fce10b1c-e185-4241-b9ba-ff418fc645c9"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB924&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "10efdd27cba24ca94f3fa1b53a2150dbcf3a6900524bad221757eec6a206d914"
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 924 (2017) — Commissioner of Financial Regulation and State Collection Agency Licensing Board - Surety Bond Requirements for Licensees and Registrants

## 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/sb0924f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Serafini — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** Hearing 3/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-16** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed
- **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
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 479 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fce10b1c-e185-4241-b9ba-ff418fc645c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).