---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund - Commercial Policies - Notice and Quotes"
description: "Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund - Commercial Policies - Notice and Quotes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 379"
citation: "Maryland HB 379 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Other than Health", "Insurance", "Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund", "Motor Vehicle Insurance", "Notices", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-30"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c67008f-e044-4e5b-98e7-7e1a8281b455"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB379&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "5848e3073b6215f36019789e18905dd575cd41d97fb958c56f5b3484cb62894e"
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 379 (2019) — Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund - Commercial Policies - Notice and Quotes

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0379f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Economic Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Maryland Insurance Administration) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-30** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-14** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-14** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-14** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-02-19** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-20** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-25** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-28** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 114 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c67008f-e044-4e5b-98e7-7e1a8281b455`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).