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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business Regulation - Licensed Home Improvement Contractors - Liability Insurance"
description: "Business Regulation - Licensed Home Improvement Contractors - Liability Insurance"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 738"
citation: "Maryland HB 738 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Holmes", "Kaufman", "Simmons", "Wims"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-29"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/191c52d3-b12e-43b4-8189-47d9b4d88e20"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0738?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "43cfd2d5c2577a0cf9edacd75f557efd190dfdfaf38e747d2e038fad0927f3f1"
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 738 (2024) — Business Regulation - Licensed Home Improvement Contractors - Liability Insurance
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Business Regulation - Licensed Home Improvement Contractors - Liability Insurance** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_530_hb0738t.pdf)
2. **First - Business Regulation - Licensed Home Improvement Contractors - Liability Insurance** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0738f.pdf)
3. **Third - Business Regulation - Licensed Home Improvement Contractors - Liability Insurance** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0738t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **450** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **11625** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Holmes — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Simmons — primary (person)
- Wims — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-29** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-04** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-05** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-28** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-03-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 530 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/191c52d3-b12e-43b4-8189-47d9b4d88e20`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).