2010 Regular Session
Insurance -see also- Health Ins; MAIF; Motor Vehicle Ins
Status of Legislation
Total number of Bills: 68
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Ivey
- Entitled
- Homeowner's Insurance - Coverage for Water Damage
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Health and Government Operations Committee (By Request - Departmental - Insurance Administration, Maryland)
- Entitled
- Insurance - Insurers - Audits, Investments, and Operations
- Committee
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House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Economic Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Labor, Licensing and Regulation)
- Entitled
- Commissioner of Labor and Industry - Boiler and Pressure Vessel Safety Act
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Economic Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Insurance Administration, Maryland)
- Entitled
- Insurance - Underwriting and Rating - Consumer Rates and Rating
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- The Speaker (By Request - Administration)
- Entitled
- Labor and Employment - Unemployment Insurance - Modernization and Tax Relief Act
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Miller, Aumann, Bartlett, Bates, Beitzel, Boteler, Costa, Dwyer, Eckardt, Elliott, Elmore, Frank, George, Haddaway, Impallaria, Jennings, Kelly, King, Kipke, Krebs, McComas, McConkey, Minnick, Myers, O'Donnell, Serafini, Shank, Shewell, Smigiel, Sossi, Stull, Walkup, and Wood
- Entitled
- People's Insurance Counsel Division in the Office of the Attorney General - Repeal
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Cardin
- Entitled
- Unemployment Insurance - Disqualification - Imprisonment for Felony Conviction
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Rudolph
- Entitled
- Insurance - Premium Increase for Commercial and Workers' Compensation Insurance - Notice
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Taylor (Joint Committee on Unemployment Insurance Oversight) and Delegates Jameson, King, Ali, Feldman, Manno, and Rice
- Entitled
- Joint Committee on Unemployment Insurance Oversight - Termination Date and Study
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Davis, Burns, Love, Manno, Taylor, and Vaughn
- Entitled
- Insurance - Domestic Reinsurers
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Carter, Conaway, McConkey, and Vallario
- Entitled
- Estates - Disqualification - Conviction for Unlawfully Obtaining Property of Vulnerable Adult or Elderly Individual
- Committee
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House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Sossi
- Entitled
- Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Corporation - Maximum Liability
- Committee
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House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- The Speaker (By Request - Administration) and Delegates Bartlett, Bobo, Bronrott, Cane, Carr, V. Clagett, Davis, Donoghue, Doory, Eckardt, Elmore, Frush, Gaines, Haddaway, Hammen, Healey, Jones, Kullen, Lafferty, McIntosh, Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, Proctor, Ramirez, Rice, Stein, Barve, Cardin, Frick, George, Gilchrist, Hixson, Howard, Ivey, Kaiser, Murphy, Myers, Olszewski, Ross, Stukes, F. Turner, and Walker
- Entitled
- Smart, Green, and Growing - The Sustainable Communities Act of 2010
- Committee
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House: Ways and Means and Environmental Matters
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Impallaria, Jennings, McComas, and McDonough
- Entitled
- Harford County - Towing and Removing Vehicles
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Weir, Boteler, McConkey, and Minnick
- Entitled
- Landlord and Tenant - Renter's Insurance
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Stein, Beidle, Glenn, and Lafferty
- Entitled
- Common Ownership Communities - Fidelity Insurance - Fidelity Bond
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
HB 767
Status as of March 27, 2010: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Montgomery, Manno, Hucker, Ali, Anderson, Barkley, Benson, Bobo, Bronrott, Carr, Carter, G. Clagett, V. Clagett, Conaway, Frick, Frush, Gaines, Gilchrist, Gutierrez, Hixson, Howard, Hubbard, Ivey, Kaiser, Lee, Nathan-Pulliam, Niemann, Oaks, Pena-Melnyk, Ramirez, Reznik, Rice, Robinson, Rosenberg, Taylor, F. Turner, V. Turner, and Waldstreicher
- Entitled
- Maryland Health Security Act of 2010
- Committee
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House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Kramer, Manno, Barkley, Braveboy, Burns, Davis, Feldman, Haddaway, Harrison, Hecht, Impallaria, Jameson, Kirk, Krysiak, Love, Mathias, McHale, Minnick, Rudolph, Stifler, Taylor, and Vaughn
- Entitled
- Reverse Mortgage Homeowners Protection Act
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Stein
- Entitled
- Homeowner's Insurance - Ordinance or Law Coverage
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Conway, Mathias, and Rudolph
- Entitled
- Local Government Funds - Redeposit into Insured Accounts
- Committee
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House: Appropriations
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Stein, Barkley, Cardin, Manno, and Minnick
- Entitled
- Homeowner's, Farmowner's, and Dwelling Insurance Policies - Claims for Additional Payments
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Kramer, Barkley, Barnes, Conaway, Frick, Heller, Ivey, Manno, McConkey, Ramirez, Reznik, Simmons, Benson, Bromwell, Costa, Donoghue, Elliott, Hammen, Hubbard, Jenkins, Kach, Kipke, Krebs, Kullen, McDonough, Montgomery, Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, Oaks, Pena-Melnyk, Pendergrass, Riley, Tarrant, and V. Turner
- Entitled
- Insurance Producers - Use of Senior or Retiree Credential or Designation
- Committee
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House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Carr, Carter, Glenn, Gutierrez, Harrison, Howard, Montgomery, Stein, and Waldstreicher
- Entitled
- Public Safety - Regulation of Demolition - Demolition Contractors
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Environment)
- Entitled
- Reduction of Lead Risk in Housing
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
HB 987
Status as of April 12, 2010: Bill is in the Senate - Re-referred Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates George, Beidle, Carr, V. Clagett, Frush, Holmes, Hucker, Lafferty, Niemann, Norman, Serafini, Shewell, Sossi, and Stein
- Entitled
- Marine Contractors - Licensure and Regulation - Tidal Wetlands Licenses
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate George
- Entitled
- Department of Natural Resources - Regulation of For-Hire Water Carriers
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Davis
- Entitled
- Injured Workers' Insurance Fund - Status and Renaming
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Minnick, Olszewski, Weir, Barkley, Boteler, Burns, Conaway, DeBoy, Feldman, Haddaway, Harrison, Haynes, Jameson, Kelly, King, Kirk, Krysiak, Love, Manno, Mathias, McHale, Miller, Robinson, Rudolph, Stukes, and Tarrant
- Entitled
- Homeowner's Insurance - Offer of Coverage for Loss Caused by Discharge of Water
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Elliott
- Entitled
- Insurance - Unfair Claim Settlement Practices - Third-Party Claims
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Elliott, Bartlett, Bates, Costa, Eckardt, Frank, George, Haddaway, Jenkins, Krebs, McComas, Miller, Myers, O'Donnell, Schuh, Serafini, Shank, Shewell, Sossi, and Stull
- Entitled
- Health Care Malpractice - Awards and Judgments - Periodic Payments
- Committee
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House: Judiciary
HB 1252
Status as of March 16, 2010: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Manno and Feldman
- Entitled
- Physicians - Professional Liability Coverage - Requirements
- Committee
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House: Health and Government Operations
HB 1253
Status as of March 26, 2010: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Manno and Feldman
- Entitled
- Physicians - Professional Liability Coverage - Proof and Notification
- Committee
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House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Krysiak, Jameson, Kirk, McHale, Minnick, and Rudolph
- Entitled
- Workers' Compensation - Uninsured Employers' Fund - Uninsured Employer Assessments
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Carr, Hecht, and Hucker
- Entitled
- Common Interest Community Managers - Licensing and Regulation
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates King and Schuh
- Entitled
- Maryland Small Business Investment Companies
- Committee
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House: Ways and Means
HB 1351
Status as of April 6, 2010: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Manno and Montgomery
- Entitled
- Insurance - Use of Genetic Information and Genetic Tests
- Committee
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House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Montgomery, Reznik, Barnes, Bronrott, Cardin, Frick, Frush, Heller, Ivey, Kaiser, Kramer, Kullen, Mizeur, Morhaim, Pena-Melnyk, Rice, and Walker
- Entitled
- Education - Student-Athletes - Concussions
- Committee
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House: Ways and Means and Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Frick, Hixson, King, Feldman, and Schuh
- Entitled
- Maryland Small Business Investment Companies
- Committee
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House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rudolph, Miller, and Niemann
- Entitled
- Title Insurance - Title Insurers and Title Insurance Producers - Regulation and Reports
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Haynes and Kirk
- Entitled
- Bail Bonds - Surety Bondsmen - Licensure, Regulation, and Financing of Bail Bonds
- Committee
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House: Judiciary and Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Beidle and Stein
- Entitled
- Real Property - Condominiums - Cancellation of Insurance
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings and Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Middleton (Joint Committee on Unemployment Insurance Oversight) and Senators Kelley and Exum
- Entitled
- Joint Committee on Unemployment Insurance Oversight - Termination Date and Study
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- The President (By Request - Administration) and Senators Middleton, Della, Exum, Garagiola, and Kelley
- Entitled
- Unemployment Insurance - Tax Deferment, Trust Fund Solvency, and Cost-Neutral Modernization Act
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Middleton, Kelley, and Klausmeier
- Entitled
- Insurance - Premium Increase for Commercial and Workers' Compensation Insurance - Notice
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- The President (By Request - Administration) and Senators Della, Exum, Forehand, Gladden, Harrington, Jones, King, Klausmeier, Lenett, Madaleno, Middleton, Peters, Pinsky, Pugh, and Stone
- Entitled
- Smart, Green, and Growing - The Sustainable Communities Act of 2010
- Committee
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Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Senators Conway, Colburn, Dyson, Harrington, Lenett, Miller, and Reilly
- Entitled
- Marine Contractors - Licensure and Regulation - Tidal Wetlands Licenses
- Committee
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Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
SB 402
Status as of April 8, 2010: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Klausmeier, Conway, Currie, Mooney, and Stone
- Entitled
- Physicians - Professional Liability Insurance Coverage - Notification and Posting Requirements
- Committee
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Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Currie
- Entitled
- Maryland Employment Opportunity Tax Credit
- Committee
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Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Senator Astle
- Entitled
- Department of Natural Resources - Regulation of For-Hire Water Carriers
- Committee
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Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Middleton
- Entitled
- Injured Workers' Insurance Fund - Status, Renaming, and Study
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
SB 544
Status as of March 26, 2010: Bill is in the Senate - Recommit to Committee Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Harrington, Currie, Frosh, Gladden, Lenett, and Raskin
- Entitled
- Public Safety - Regulation of Demolition - Demolition Contractors
- Committee
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Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Pugh, Jones, and McFadden
- Entitled
- Insurance - Domestic Reinsurers
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Pugh
- Entitled
- Homeowner's, Farmowner's, and Dwelling Insurance Policies - Claims for Additional Payments
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Pinsky, Exum, Forehand, Gladden, Harrington, Jones, Kelley, Lenett, Madaleno, McFadden, Pugh, and Raskin
- Entitled
- Maryland Health System Act of 2010
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kramer, Conway, Currie, Della, Forehand, Jacobs, Jones, Kelley, King, Klausmeier, Lenett, Madaleno, Middleton, Muse, Peters, Pugh, Raskin, Robey, Rosapepe, Stoltzfus, Stone, Astle, Exum, Garagiola, and Glassman
- Entitled
- Insurance Producers - Use of Senior or Retiree Credential or Designation
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senators DeGrange, Kasemeyer, King, Klausmeier, McFadden, Munson, Peters, Pugh, Robey, and Zirkin
- Entitled
- Local Government Funds - Redeposit into Insured Accounts
- Committee
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Senate: Budget and Taxation
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Klausmeier
- Entitled
- Common Ownership Communities - Fidelity Insurance - Exemption
- Committee
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Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Conway
- Entitled
- Bail Bonds - Surety Bondsmen - Licensure, Regulation, and Financing of Bail Bonds
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Lenett and Zirkin
- Entitled
- Education - Student-Athletes - Concussions
- Committee
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Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Ways and Means and Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kramer, Astle, DeGrange, Della, Forehand, Garagiola, Harrington, Kelley, King, Klausmeier, Madaleno, Peters, and Pugh
- Entitled
- Reverse Mortgage Homeowners Protection Act
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Peters and Currie
- Entitled
- Maryland Small Business Investment Companies
- Committee
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Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Senators Astle, Della, Exum, Garagiola, Glassman, Kelley, Kittleman, Klausmeier, Middleton, Pipkin, and Pugh
- Entitled
- Title Insurers - Required Reserves, Capital Stock, and Surplus
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
SB 906
Status as of March 31, 2010: Bill is in the House - First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Stone
- Entitled
- Homeowner's Insurance - Coverage for Loss Caused by Discharge of Water - Study
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kelley, Conway, and Exum
- Entitled
- Common Interest Community Managers - Licensing and Regulation
- Committee
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Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Exum, Garagiola, Gladden, Kelley, and Peters
- Entitled
- Workers' Compensation - Uninsured Employers' Fund - Uninsured Employer Assessments
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Stone
- Entitled
- Homeowner's Insurance - Coverage for Other Structures
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Kelley
- Entitled
- Title Insurance - Title Insurers and Title Insurance Producers - Regulation and Reports
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Kittleman
- Entitled
- Workers' Compensation - Average Weekly Wage - Compensation
- Committee
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Senate: Senate Rules
