2007 house journal index of days - Maryland General Assembly

748 Journal of Proceedings Feb. 9, 2007
(2005 Replacement Volume and 2006 Supplement)
Read the first time and referred to the Committee on Health and Government Operations.
House Bill 1011 – Delegate Kach
AN ACT concerning
Consumer Protection – Advertisement of Rebate for Consumer Goods
FOR the purpose of prohibiting merchants from advertising rebates for consumer goods
by displaying the net price of the consumer goods in the advertisement unless the
amount of the rebate is provided to the consumer by the merchant at the time of
the purchase of the consumer goods; providing that a merchant need not provide
the amount of a rebate for consumer goods to a consumer if the advertisement for
the consumer goods states that a rebate is available without displaying the net
price of the consumer goods; defining a certain term; and generally relating to the
advertisement of rebates for consumer goods by merchants.
BY adding to
Article – Commercial Law
Section 13–319
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2005 Replacement Volume and 2006 Supplement)
Read the first time and referred to the Committee on Economic Matters.
House Bill 1012 – Delegate Proctor
AN ACT concerning
Real Property – Home Builders – Disclosures in Contracts of Sale
FOR the purpose of requiring that a home builder that agrees to provide a community
amenity to a community development must include certain information in the
contract of sale; providing that a home builder that fails to include certain
information in the contract of sale or fails to make a certain community amenity
available by a certain date shall return 10% of the contract price to the home
purchaser; and generally relating to the disclosure of certain information by a
home builder.
BY adding to
Article – Real Property
Section 10–705