---
type: "Bill"
title: "Commissioner of Financial Regulation - Enhanced Consumer Protections and Enforcement Tools"
description: "Commissioner of Financial Regulation - Enhanced Consumer Protections and Enforcement Tools"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 252"
citation: "Maryland SB 252 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelley"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-14"
last_action: "2022-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f48daf6-4fbc-47f1-b035-81f84087036e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0252?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "31555a061fecf665ef0c319ffd5cc764b7d0795c4eeb1f0374f9b9741c56862a"
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 252 (2022) — Commissioner of Financial Regulation - Enhanced Consumer Protections and Enforcement Tools

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Commissioner of Financial Regulation - Enhanced Consumer Protections and Enforcement Tools** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_107_sb0252t.pdf)
2. **First - Commissioner of Financial Regulation - Enhanced Consumer Protections and Enforcement Tools** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0252f.pdf)
3. **Third - Commissioner of Financial Regulation - Enhanced Consumer Protections and Enforcement Tools** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0252t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **96–41** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kelley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-14** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-14** Hearing 2/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-02-14** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-15** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-15** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-02-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-22** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-07** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-07** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2022-04-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 107 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f48daf6-4fbc-47f1-b035-81f84087036e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).