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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Insurance - Contracts and Policies - Educational and Promotional Materials and Articles of Merchandise"
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description: "Insurance - Contracts and Policies - Educational and Promotional Materials and Articles of Merchandise"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
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legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
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session: "2018"
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identifier: "SB 673"
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citation: "Maryland SB 673 (2018)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Insurance - Other than Health", "Insurance - Health", "Advertising", "Consumer Protection", "Contracts", "Education", "Gifts", "Insurance", "Prices", "Retail Sales"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Middleton"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 13
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2018-02-01"
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last_action: "2018-05-08"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d2337b2-dd32-4be3-998d-1552bde912d7"
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source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB673&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
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source_hash: "8cd531acd5e41a87c40ab29ac19858f4b0409a8f00b56048ee99846ae9e8b01c"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
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---
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# Maryland SB 673 (2018) — Insurance - Contracts and Policies - Educational and Promotional Materials and Articles of Merchandise
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/sb/sb0673f.pdf)
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## Votes
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- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
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- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Middleton — primary (person)
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- Astle — cosponsor (person)
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- Benson — cosponsor (person)
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- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
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- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
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- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
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- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
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- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
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- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
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- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-02-01** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2018-02-01** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
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- **2018-02-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2018-02-28** Favorable with Amendments {637179/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2018-02-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
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- **2018-03-02** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
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- **2018-03-05** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
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- **2018-03-23** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2018-03-23** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2018-03-23** Second Reading Passed
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- **2018-03-26** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
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- **2018-03-27** Returned Passed
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- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 486 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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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).
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