---
type: "Bill"
title: "Commercial Insurance - Insurance Producers - Commissions"
description: "Commercial Insurance - Insurance Producers - Commissions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1078"
citation: "Maryland HB 1078 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Other than Health", "Agents and Brokers", "Commerce and Business", "Insurance", "Prices"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frick"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-07"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a176306d-be7b-42a8-9caa-2e81e0b6b43f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1078&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "9b0c5dc32af7b5fc4c069c4c438ce75dcdd4fb7d561b9d34d606df11b189e0c2"
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 1078 (2018) — Commercial Insurance - Insurance Producers - Commissions

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1078f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Frick — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-07** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {893298/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-14** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-15** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-19** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-30** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 513 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a176306d-be7b-42a8-9caa-2e81e0b6b43f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).