SB0893 — Business Regulation - Rounding Cash Transactions - Authorization
Last action — Committee Report (House of Origin) — Favorable with Amendments
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✓Introduced
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✓In Committee
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✓Passed Senate
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✓Passed House of Delegates
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✓To Executive
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6Enacted
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 06, 2026. Enacted.
Odds of enactment
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Prognosis
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Enacted
Current position in the legislative process.
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1 sponsor
1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.
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Single-party support
Sponsorship is currently within one party (1 D).
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Cleared a recorded vote
Passed 3 recorded votes so far.
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Summary
Authorizing a merchant to round the portion of the price of a certain transaction for which a customer pays using cash in a certain manner or round the amount of change due to a customer in a certain manner; and altering the definition of "taxable price" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the State sales and use tax to clarify the exclusion from the tax of a certain amount collected due to rounding the price for a good or service in accordance with certain provisions of the Act.
Bill Text
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Read SB0893 on the official Maryland source →Action History
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Committee Report (House of Origin) — Favorable with Amendments
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First Reading (Opposite House)
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Third Reading (House of Origin) — Passed
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Hearing (Primary, House of Origin)
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Second Reading (House of Origin) — Passed with Amendments
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First Reading (House of Origin)
Sponsors
- Senator Dawn Gile · Primary
Sponsorship breakdown
Export CSV (upgrade) →1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 187 not signed on · 21 voted No
Sponsors (1)
- Senator Dawn Gile Democrat
Co-sponsors (0)
None.
Not signed on (187)
187 members have not signed on to this bill.
Show all 187 →"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.
Votes
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
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| Unaffiliated | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Democrat | 92 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Republican | 21 | 10 | 0 | 3 |
| Total | 124 | 12 | 0 | 5 |
| % of votes cast | 88% | 9% | 0% | 4% |
How each member voted (141)
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unaffiliated | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Democrat | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Republican | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 36 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| % of votes cast | 77% | 23% | 0% | 0% |
How each member voted (47)
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
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| Democrat | 28 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Unaffiliated | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Republican | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 37 | 9 | 0 | 2 |
| % of votes cast | 77% | 19% | 0% | 4% |
How each member voted (48)
Subjects
Frequently asked questions
- What does SB0893 do?
- Authorizing a merchant to round the portion of the price of a certain transaction for which a customer pays using cash in a certain manner or round the amount of change due to a customer in a certain manner; and altering the definition of "taxable price" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the State sales and use tax to clarify the exclusion from the tax of a certain amount collected due to rounding the price for a good or service in accordance with certain provisions of the Act.
- Who sponsors SB0893?
- SB0893 is sponsored by Senator Dawn Gile (Democrat).
- What is the current status of SB0893?
- This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 06, 2026. Enacted.
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