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type: "Bill"
title: "Electric Companies - Billing Information"
description: "Electric Companies - Billing Information"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 856"
citation: "Maryland SB 856 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hershey"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-09"
last_action: "2021-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c87c8fd2-5af6-467f-96dd-c862e7fbe81c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0856?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "2cb05d30796861d9ba63e9e41d497e19f3ef2952b4881c3031db7091ca2e57c3"
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 856 (2021) — Electric Companies - Billing Information
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Electric Companies - Billing Information** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_173_sb0856t.pdf)
2. **First - Electric Companies - Billing Information** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0856f.pdf)
3. **Third - Electric Companies - Billing Information** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0856t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **450** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **1350** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Hershey — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-09** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-10** Hearing 3/09 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2021-03-19** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-19** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-19** Second Reading Passed
- **2021-03-19** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-20** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-01** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2021-05-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 173 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c87c8fd2-5af6-467f-96dd-c862e7fbe81c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).