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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business Regulation - Trademarks, Service Marks, and Trade Names - Registration"
description: "Business Regulation - Trademarks, Service Marks, and Trade Names - Registration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 23"
citation: "Maryland SB 23 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-08-26"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/388a790e-d43a-4a9f-b2c6-3a9984b7cc67"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0023?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "3a0eda3ade1ab1831bd8803a4fb49a35f78e58a21c3e66e4107b1349cf60aa62"
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 23 (2020) — Business Regulation - Trademarks, Service Marks, and Trade Names - Registration
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Business Regulation - Trademarks, Service Marks, and Trade Names - Registration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_501_sb0023t.pdf)
2. **First - Business Regulation - Trademarks, Service Marks, and Trade Names - Registration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0023f.pdf)
3. **Third - Business Regulation - Trademarks, Service Marks, and Trade Names - Registration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0023t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **460** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **1340** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chair, Finance Committee — primary (organization)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-08-26** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2020-01-08** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-12-19** Hearing 1/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-01-23** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-24** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-24** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-01-28** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-01-29** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-15** Hearing 3/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-17** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 501 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/388a790e-d43a-4a9f-b2c6-3a9984b7cc67`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).