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MDHB513PassAltering the distribution of revenue from civil fines collected through the use of work zone speed control systems; altering the highways on which a work zone speed control system may be used; clarifying that a system operator does not need to be pre...
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2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 17
MDHB193Enroll
75%
Authorizing Anne Arundel County and municipalities in Anne Arundel County to decrease the maximum speed limit to not less than 15 miles per hour on highways after performing an engineering and traffic investigation; and prohibiting Anne Arundel Count...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB737Enroll
75%
Repealing a certain provision of law that applies the requirement that slow moving vehicles drive in the right-hand lane or lanes only to certain highways in certain geographic areas; and altering the standards under which the State Highway Administr...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB761Enroll
75%
Prohibiting, beginning December 31, 2026, the location of a school bus stop on any highway with five or more undivided traffic lanes in Montgomery County unless a school crossing guard is posted or a certain traffic control device is placed at the sc...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB967Enroll
75%
Prohibiting a person from parking certain vehicles in the Town of Keedysville, Washington County.
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB766Enroll
75%
Prohibiting a person from standing in a roadway, median divider, or intersection to solicit money or donations from the occupant of a vehicle in Calvert County.
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2024-04-06
Returned Passed
MDHB43Enroll
75%
Authorizing counties and municipalities to designate certain highways in their respective jurisdictions on which a person may operate a golf cart; authorizing a person with a valid driver's license to operate a golf cart only on a highway with a maxi...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB364Enroll
75%
Authorizing the use of stop sign monitoring systems in school zones in Prince George's County, if authorized by local law; providing that the owner or driver of a motor vehicle recorded failing to obey a stop sign is subject to a citation and a certa...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB102Enroll
75%
Requiring a rear passenger on a motorcycle to be able to firmly position the passenger's feet on the footrests of the motorcycle, subject to an exception for permanent physical disability.
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB176Enroll
75%
Authorizing a person who undertakes the towing or removal of a vehicle from a parking lot to notify the insurer of record electronically if that form of notice is agreed to by the tower and the insurer of record in a certain manner.
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB337Enroll
75%
Prohibiting a person from committing a violation of a certain provision of law governing the right-of-way of a bicycle, a motor scooter, or an electronic personal assistive mobility device lawfully in a designated bike lane or shoulder that contribut...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB552Enroll
75%
Requiring that citations and notices issued as a result of automated enforcement under the Maryland Vehicle Law be sent to the current mailing address on file with the Administration or if a mailing address is not available, the current residential a...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB601Enroll
75%
Altering certain penalties and points assessments for certain motor vehicle violations related to participation in a race or speed contest; prohibiting a person from engaging in exhibition driving on any highway or private property that is used for d...
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2024-04-02
Passed Enrolled
MDHB440Engross
50%
Establishing exceptions to motor vehicle registration requirements for golf carts on Cobb Island in Charles County; requiring an operator of a golf cart on a highway on Cobb Island without a certain registration to operate the golf cart only on a hig...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1312Intro
25%
Prohibiting a person in Wicomico County from standing in a roadway, median divider, or intersection to solicit money or donations from the occupant of a vehicle.
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2024-03-19
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB196Engross
50%
Requiring the public school safety education program to include student instruction concerning school bus safety and the proper use of seat belts on school buses; requiring that school buses purchased after July 1, 2027, be equipped with 3-point seat...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB356Engross
50%
Requiring a law enforcement agency, under certain cirucumstances, to issue a warning rather than a citation for a failure to stop for a school vehicle that is recorded by a school bus monitoring camera; and requiring the State Highway Administration ...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB413Engross
50%
Repealing in Montgomery County the requirement that a local jurisdiction publish notice of the location of a speed monitoring system in a newspaper of general circulation.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB665Engross
50%
Authorizing the placement and use of speed monitoring systems on highways in Montgomery County that are at high risk for certain motor vehicle crashes; prohibiting the placement and use of speed monitoring systems on certain highways in Montgomery Co...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB653Engross
50%
Establishing an exception to motor vehicle registration requirements under certain circumstances for golf carts in certain areas in St. Mary's County; authorizing the St. Mary's County Board of Commissioners to designate certain county highways where...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB750Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person from obscuring or modifying a vehicle registration plate in a manner that may prevent identification; and authorizing a police office to enforce the Act only as a secondary action.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1001Engross
50%
Requiring a custodian of recorded images produced by certain automated enforcement systems to deny inspection of the images; prohibiting certain State and local agencies from using a recorded image or associated data from an automated enforcement sys...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB511Engross
50%
Authorizing a person operating a bicycle that is approaching a stop sign at an intersection on a highway with two or fewer lanes for moving traffic to cautiously make a turn or proceed through the intersection without stopping if the person reduces t...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB492Intro
25%
Requiring Baltimore City to notify the Motor Vehicle Administration for purposes of imposing administrative sanctions if an owner or a driver of a vehicle accumulates more than $250 of unpaid and overdue fines for violations recorded by speed monitor...
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2024-03-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB107Engross
50%
Prohibiting a person from parking or standing certain vehicles in a dedicated bus lane; making statewide the authority of a local jurisdiction to use, in accordance with certain standards and procedures, a bus lane monitoring system to enforce the pr...
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2024-03-08
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB187Intro
25%
Establishing the Task Force to Study Aggressive and Reckless Driving to study data, research, initiatives, and policies regarding aggressive and reckless driving; and requiring the Task Force to submit an interim report by December 1, 2024 and a fina...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB278Engross
50%
Authorizing the State Highway Administration to decrease the maximum speed limit by 5 miles per hour on urban State highways without an engineering and traffic investigation.
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2024-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1278Intro
25%
Establishing a light-emitting diode (LED) stop sign pilot program for certain intersections in Baltimore County to be implemented by the State Highway Administration in conjunction with Baltimore County; and requiring the Administration to report to ...
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2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1369Intro
25%
Authorizing the placement and use by the Maryland Transportation Authority of not more than four speed monitoring systems on Maryland Route 200 (Intercounty Connector) in Montgomery County.
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2024-02-23
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1444Intro
25%
Establishing that certain provisions of law authorizing the use of speed monitoring systems in certain residential districts apply statewide; and requiring all speed limit signs on certain highways in residential districts to include certain signs.
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2024-02-19
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1502Intro
25%
Authorizing the placement and use of 16 speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 in Baltimore County, except that only 4 may be operated at any given time; requiring that fines collected by Baltimore County as a result of violations enforced by spe...
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2024-02-19
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB58Intro
25%
Establishing that certain provisions of law authorizing the use of speed monitoring systems in certain residential districts apply in Baltimore County; requiring all speed limit signs within certain segments of certain highways in Baltimore County to...
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2024-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB111Engross
50%
Authorizing a person to ride a bicycle, play vehicle, or unicycle on a sidewalk or sidewalk area unless prohibited by local ordinance; and requiring a person riding a bicycle, play vehicle, or unicycle on a sidewalk or sidewalk area or in or through ...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1335Intro
25%
Providing that a person charged with reckless or negligent driving must appear in court and may not prepay the fine if the reckless or negligent driving contributed to an accident that resulted in the death of another person, unless a court for good ...
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1186Intro
25%
Requiring the State Highway Administration to install and use at least one interstate speed monitoring system on each interstate highway; establishing procedures for implementing and using an interstate speed monitoring system; requiring the Maryland...
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2024-02-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1160Intro
25%
Altering the penalties for the offenses of allowing the unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and reckless, negligent, and aggressive driving; and adding certain motor vehicle offenses as elements that may contribute to charges for reckless or aggressi...
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2024-02-08
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB275Intro
25%
Creating an exception to motor vehicle registration requirements for golf carts in the Town of Charlestown, Cecil County; authorizing a person to operate a golf cart in the Town of Charlestown without registration only on a highway with a posted maxi...
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2024-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB551Intro
25%
Requiring the Office of Legislative Audits to perform a performance audit of the Maryland Transportation Authority's toll operations; increasing the number of days within which a person alleged to be liable for a video toll must pay the toll; prohibi...
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2024-02-07
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB639Intro
25%
Establishing an exception to the prohibition against operating or riding on a motorcycle without certain protective headgear for an individual at least 21 years of age who has been licensed to operate a motorcycle for at least 2 years or has complete...
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2024-01-26
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB298Intro
25%
Expanding to every roadway in the State the requirement that the driver of a vehicle traveling slower than the general speed of traffic drive the vehicle in the right-hand lanes if practicable as determined by the driver; and providing that, on a roa...
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2024-01-18
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB207Intro
25%
Altering the penalties that may be imposed for reckless driving and aggressive driving to include a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 30 days or both, and for a subsequent offense occurring within 3 years of a prior conviction, ...
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2024-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee
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