---
type: "Bill"
title: "Homeowner's Insurance - Notices"
description: "Homeowner's Insurance - Notices"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 279"
citation: "Maryland SB 279 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Other than Health", "Committees and Commissions", "Disclosure", "Electronic Communication", "Forms", "Insurance", "Notices", "Real Property", "Rules and Regulations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Middleton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8308ef61-f51e-4ce7-91c0-9b2cb3de1099"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB279&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "d33ab1f81eb04e293ed197e3d38cbbbc9ea3c2db6ac0a2d352a97fc81f224f21"
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 279 (2017) — Homeowner's Insurance - Notices

## 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/sb/sb0279f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Middleton — primary (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-20** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-13** Favorable with Amendments {367173/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-15** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-15** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 124 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8308ef61-f51e-4ce7-91c0-9b2cb3de1099`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).