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type: "Bill"
title: "Commercial Law - Consumer Protection - Door-to-Door Sales"
description: "Commercial Law - Consumer Protection - Door-to-Door Sales"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 959"
citation: "Maryland HB 959 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commercial Law - Consumer Protection", "Commerce and Business", "Committees and Commissions", "Consumer Protection", "Contracts", "Home Improvement", "Housing", "Notices", "Real Property", "Retail Sales"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kramer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-06"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1003490-cac6-4ee5-ae5d-1fff20ccadda"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB959&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "c427c255cba88073edfe589e4d7e47b3b7196f06a14a933fb6920e4e23373256"
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 959 (2017) — Commercial Law - Consumer Protection - Door-to-Door Sales
## 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/hb0959f.pdf)
## Votes
- Third Reading — **450** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **1372** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Kramer — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-06** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-06** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {663997/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-18** Third Reading Passed (137-2) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 94 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a1003490-cac6-4ee5-ae5d-1fff20ccadda`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).