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Senate advances climate‑insurance study bill after debate over scope and funding
Summary
Senate Bill 739, directing a University of Maryland‑led study on climate change impacts on insurance markets and homeowners, advanced after senators debated whether the study should assess state policy impacts and its $150,000 fiscal source. Committee amendments were adopted and the bill was ordered printed for third reading.
Senate Bill 739, presented on the floor March 20, 2026, would commission a data‑driven study of how climate change is altering risk across Maryland and how insurance markets are responding — aimed at protecting homeowners in areas where federal disaster aid is unavailable or denied.
Floor leader (speaker 19) told the Senate the study "is to look at what do we do where we have found ourselves in a situation like…
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