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IntroducedFeb 09, 2026
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Passed HouseMar 23, 2026
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Passed Senate
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Became Law
Maryland House Bill
Public Service Commission - Broadband and Voice Over Internet Protocol Service - Study
Last Action See all actions
Senate • Apr 08, 2026: Motion Special Order until 4/10 (Senator Salling) Adopted
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on HB 1037
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
Votes
YES: 105
- Joseline A. Peña-Melnyk
- Cullison
- Johnson, S.
- Pruski
- Stinnett
- Acevero
- Davis
- Jones, D.
- Qi
- Taveras
- Addison
- Ebersole
- Kaiser
- Queen
- Taylor
- Allen
- Edelson
- Kaufman
- Roberson
- Terrasa
- Alston
- Embry
- Kerr
- Roberts
- Toles
- Amprey
- Fair
- Korman
- Rogers
- Turner
- Bagnall
- Feldmark
- Lehman
- Rosenberg
- Valderrama
- Barnes
- Fennell
- Lewis
- Ross
- Vogel
- Bartlett
- Foley
- Long, J.
- Ruff
- Watson
- Behler
- Forbes
- Lopez
- Ruth
- Wells
- Bhandari
- Fraser-Hidalgo
- Martinez
- Sample-Hughes
- White Holland
- Boafo
- Guyton
- McCaskill
- Schindler
- Wilkins
- Boyce
- Guzzone
- Mireku-North
- Schmidt
- Williams
- Cardin
- Harrison
- Moon
- Shetty
- Wilson
- Chang
- Healey
- Moreno
- Simmons
- Wims
- Charkoudian
- Hill
- Morgan, T.
- Simpson
- Wolek
- Ciliberti
- Holmes
- Odom
- Smith
- Woods
- Clippinger
- Hornberger
- Palakovich Carr
- Solomon
- Woorman
- Coley
- Ivey
- Pasteur
- Spiegel
- Wu
- Conaway
- Jacobs
- Patterson
- Stein
- Young
- Crutchfield
- Johnson, A.
- Phillips
- Stewart
- Ziegler
NO: 32
ABSENT: 1
EXCUSED: 1
Actions
- Apr 08, 2026 | Senate
- Favorable Report by Finance
- Favorable
- Motion Special Order until 4/10 (Senator Salling) Adopted
- Mar 23, 2026 | Senate
- Referred Finance
- Mar 23, 2026 | House
- Third Reading Passed (105-32)
- Mar 21, 2026 | House
- Favorable with Amendments {193522/1 Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- Mar 20, 2026 | House
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation
- Feb 12, 2026 | House
- Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- Feb 09, 2026 | House
- First Reading Environment and Transportation
Bill Texts
- Text - First - Public Service Commission - Broadband and Voice Over Internet Protocol Service - Oversight (Broadband Accountability and Affordability Act)PDF
- Amendments {193522/1 Adopted (House)PDF
- Text - Third - Public Service Commission - Broadband and Voice Over Internet Protocol Service - StudyPDF
Documents
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Revised)PDF
- Vote - House - Committee - Environment and TransportationPDF
- Vote - Senate - Committee - FinancePDF
- Video: Environment and TransportationHTML
- Witness ListHTML
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Foley, Linda
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Plante, Cecilia (Maryland Legislative Coalition)
- ENT Testimony, UNF -- durkin, margaret
- ENT Testimony, UNF -- Wiggins, Grason (Maryland Chamber of Commerce)
- ENT Testimony, UNF -- Plymouth, Paul (Verizon)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Bevan-Dangel, Jennifer (Economic Action Maryland Fund)
- ENT Testimony, UNF -- Elalamy, Sara (Department of Information Technology (DoIT))
- ENT Virtual - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Hedayati, Hooman (Communications Workers of America)
- ENT Testimony, UNF -- Vetter, Drew
- ENT Testimony, UNF -- Keegan, Gerard (CTIA)
- ENT In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Proctor, Amory (CWA)
- ENT In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Jenkins, Jeff (CWA)
- ENT Testimony, FAV -- Edwards, Donna (Maryland State & District of Columbia AFL-CIO)
- ENT Testimony, INFO -- Barve, Barve (MD PSC)
- ENT Testimony, UNF -- Stokes, Megan (CCIA)



