---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicle Laws - Dealers - Performance Standards"
description: "Vehicle Laws - Dealers - Performance Standards"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1120"
citation: "Maryland HB 1120 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicle Laws - Licensing and Registration", "Consumer Protection", "Motor Vehicles", "Motor Vehicle Dealers and Salesmen", "Unfair Trade Practices"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fraser-Hidalgo and Stein"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-09"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05904ae3-1966-462e-b7ef-92f26a6407df"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1120&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "f226db1d3280a05b32fca6ba8d07b3eb22ff8ee318ebcde0bdaab1eab1a7535c"
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 1120 (2017) — Vehicle Laws - Dealers - Performance Standards

## 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/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1120f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **126–14** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Fraser-Hidalgo and Stein — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-09** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-09** Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-27** Hearing canceled
- **2017-02-27** Hearing 3/09 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-20** Favorable with Amendments {840813/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-20** Special Order until later today (Delegate Miele) Adopted
- **2017-03-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (126-14) `passage`
- **2017-03-21** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Motion Special Order until next session (Senator Ferguson) Rejected
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 560 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/05904ae3-1966-462e-b7ef-92f26a6407df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).