---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor Vehicle Insurance - Commercial Policies - Insurance Identification Card"
description: "Motor Vehicle Insurance - Commercial Policies - Insurance Identification Card"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 1131"
citation: "Maryland SB 1131 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Other than Health", "Commerce and Business", "Identification", "Motor Vehicles", "Motor Vehicle Insurance", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Middleton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-16"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5349404d-b70e-45a5-9c5f-972035900eb8"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB1131&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "1e18cbf3acd3cc1fcc56299f56ff0761c6c34df5468d6b499fb2d0ecbc61cab2"
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 1131 (2018) — Motor Vehicle Insurance - Commercial Policies - Insurance Identification Card

## 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/sb/sb1131f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Middleton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-16** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-23** Rereferred to Finance
- **2018-02-27** Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-14** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-20** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-06** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-07** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 624 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5349404d-b70e-45a5-9c5f-972035900eb8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).