---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Real Estate Commission – Brokers – Business Succession in the Event of Disability"
description: "State Real Estate Commission – Brokers – Business Succession in the Event of Disability"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 846"
citation: "Maryland SB 846 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business Regulation and Occupations", "Agents and Brokers", "Committees and Commissions", "Disabilities", "Licenses", "Real Estate", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Conway"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-05"
last_action: "2018-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d09683d-6bdc-416e-879e-8276eb01b6c5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB846&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "b52f5ab5ea56c2e99c72329069a7975eaa08eec9774560f289bfa68f7049a04d"
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 846 (2018) — State Real Estate Commission – Brokers – Business Succession in the Event of Disability

## 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/sb0846f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Conway — primary (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-05** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-05** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Favorable with Amendments {934335/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-30** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-10** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 77 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7d09683d-6bdc-416e-879e-8276eb01b6c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).