---
type: "Bill"
title: "Private Passenger Motor Vehicle Insurance - Prohibition on Cancellation Due to Towing or Emergency Roadside Coverage Claims"
description: "Private Passenger Motor Vehicle Insurance - Prohibition on Cancellation Due to Towing or Emergency Roadside Coverage Claims"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 118"
citation: "Maryland HB 118 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dumais"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-01-13"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f4cb186-3fe8-4b9c-978a-011edaa7023d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0118?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "660c88eb6961d1f2d6aee63021993cff0290d9c8ff5ddca677814bd53bda062e"
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 HB 118 (2020) — Private Passenger Motor Vehicle Insurance - Prohibition on Cancellation Due to Towing or Emergency Roadside Coverage Claims

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Private Passenger Motor Vehicle Insurance - Prohibition on Cancellation Due to Towing or Emergency Roadside Coverage Claims** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_62_hb0118t.pdf)
2. **First - Private Passenger Motor Vehicle Insurance - Prohibition on Cancellation Due to Towing or Emergency Roadside Coverage Claims** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0118f.pdf)
3. **Third - Private Passenger Motor Vehicle Insurance - Prohibition on Cancellation Due to Towing or Emergency Roadside Coverage Claims** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0118t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **131–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dumais — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-13** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-22** Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-02-03** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-02-06** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-15** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-15** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-16** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 62 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f4cb186-3fe8-4b9c-978a-011edaa7023d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).