---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Safety - Emergency Management - Consumer Protections Against Price Gouging"
description: "Public Safety - Emergency Management - Consumer Protections Against Price Gouging"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 542"
citation: "Maryland SB 542 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Office of the Attorney General", "President"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-03"
last_action: "2023-05-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4192d7ec-cde8-484a-9997-bf08e03f704f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0542?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "7ae34fb1121d7ac2dfab5efbf62cfecdb6e27b37886120a062cfe91799121448"
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 542 (2023) — Public Safety - Emergency Management - Consumer Protections Against Price Gouging

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Public Safety - Emergency Management - Consumer Protections Against Price Gouging** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_631_sb0542t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Safety - Emergency Management - Consumer Protections Against Price Gouging** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0542f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Safety - Emergency Management - Consumer Protections Against Price Gouging** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0542t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Office of the Attorney General — primary (person)
- President — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-03** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-20** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-30** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2023-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2023-05-16** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 631 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4192d7ec-cde8-484a-9997-bf08e03f704f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).