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type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance - Contracts and Policies - Educational and Promotional Materials and Articles of Merchandise"
description: "Insurance - Contracts and Policies - Educational and Promotional Materials and Articles of Merchandise"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 673"
citation: "Maryland SB 673 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance - Other than Health", "Insurance - Health", "Advertising", "Consumer Protection", "Contracts", "Education", "Gifts", "Insurance", "Prices", "Retail Sales"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Middleton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-01"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d2337b2-dd32-4be3-998d-1552bde912d7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB673&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "8cd531acd5e41a87c40ab29ac19858f4b0409a8f00b56048ee99846ae9e8b01c"
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 673 (2018) — Insurance - Contracts and Policies - Educational and Promotional Materials and Articles of Merchandise
## 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/sb0673f.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1350** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **440** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Middleton — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-01** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-28** Favorable with Amendments {637179/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-02** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-05** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-23** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-23** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-23** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-26** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-27** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 486 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d2337b2-dd32-4be3-998d-1552bde912d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).