File Code: Insurance - Other than Health
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Chair, Economic Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Insurance
Administration, Maryland)
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Automobile Liability and Homeowner's Insurance - Rating, Retiering, and
Discounts
 
Establishing principles for making homeowner's insurance rates;
prohibiting an insurer from classifying or maintaining an insured for
more than 3 years in a classification that entails a higher premium
based on a specific claim; providing that removal or reduction of a
discount or refusal to apply a discount under homeowner's insurance is
not a violation of the Act under specified circumstances; making the
Act effective January 1, 2010; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occurring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
House Action
- 1/26
 - First Reading Economic Matters
 - 1/28
 - Hearing 2/4 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/17
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters
 - 3/18
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/20
 - Third Reading Passed (133-0)
 - 4/3
 - House Concur - Senate Amendments
 -      Third Reading Passed (135-0)
 -      Passed Enrolled
 
Senate Action
- 3/23
 - First Reading Finance
 - 3/24
 - Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 4/6
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
 - 4/3
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 4/4
 - Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0)
 
Action after passage in House  and Senate
- 5/7
 - Approved by the Governor
 -      - Chapter 378
 
Sponsored by:
- Economic Matters Committee, Chair
 - Departmental
 - Insurance Administration, Maryland
 
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Consumer Protection -see also- Unfair Trade Practices
 - Fees -see also- Devt Fees and Taxes; Reimbursement Rates
 - Insurance -see also- Health Ins; MAIF; Motor Vehicle Ins
 - Motor Vehicle Insurance -see also- MD Auto Insurance Fund
 - Prices -see also- Consumer Price Index
 - Real Property
 
Bill affects the following Statutes:
-   Insurance
 - (
 11-213 ,
 11-215 ,
 11-215 ,
 11-315 ,
 11-318 ,
 11-318 ,
 19-507 
)
 
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
 First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
 - Fiscal and Policy Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
 Available
 - Amendments (Displayed in PDF Format):
 House 
- Number: 693397/02     Offered on: March 18, 2009      at:
10:14 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 
Senate
- Number: 637471/01     Offered on: April 7, 2009       at:
12:18 p.m.     Status: Adopted
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
 House 
- March 20, 2009: Third Reading Passed  (133-0)
 - April 3, 2009: Third Reading Passed  (135-0)
 
Senate
- April 4, 2009: Third Reading Passed  (47-0)