---
type: "Bill"
title: "Credit Regulation - Escrow Accounts - Water and Sewer Facilities Assessments"
description: "Credit Regulation - Escrow Accounts - Water and Sewer Facilities Assessments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 755"
citation: "Maryland SB 755 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commercial Law - Credit Regulation", "Assessments", "Credit", "Deeds", "Escrow Accounts", "Fees", "Financial Institutions", "Liens", "Loans", "Mortgages", "Prices", "Real Property", "Records", "Sewage", "Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peters"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-05"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbc6ccf8-2d2a-47e3-995f-11f4fd8f8c53"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB755&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "0edf368a9657ea708010b354d32d1834e11b489ca1f6a91cddf353f2558ece41"
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 755 (2018) — Credit Regulation - Escrow Accounts - Water and Sewer Facilities Assessments

## 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/2018RS/bills/sb/sb0755f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Peters — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-05** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-06** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-02** Favorable with Amendments {837479/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-02** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-06** Third Reading Passed (43-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-07** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-02** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 340 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bbc6ccf8-2d2a-47e3-995f-11f4fd8f8c53`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).