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MDHB960PassRepealing a provision of law requring a District Court judge to assign, if practicable, an offender to work the public roads of Frederick County or the City of Frederick as a penalty for a violation of a municipal law or ordinance of the City of Fred...
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2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 983
MDHB165PassRequiring 20% of certain State aid for highway user revenues and disparity grants to be discontinued if a county, municipality, or special taxing district does not submit a certain audit report within 2 calendar years after the deadline for the repor...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 498
MDHB212PassEstablishing a pilot program to authorize the use of noise abatement monitoring systems in Montgomery County and Prince George's County to enforce certain motor vehicle noise requirements; requiring a county, before activating a noise abatement monit...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 624
MDHB43PassAuthorizing 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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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 492
MDHB22PassRequiring the State Highway Administration's pollinator habitat plan to include policies and procedures regarding the use of pollinator habitat areas along State highways; requiring the Administration to track and evaluate federal programs that provi...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 553
MDHB193PassAuthorizing 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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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 468
MDHB113PassProhibiting an adult from allowing certain minors to ride a horse, donkey, mule, or pony on a highway, a public horse-riding path, or the grounds of a facility for which the primary purpose is recreational, educational, therapeutic, or competitive eq...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 467
MDHB337PassProhibiting 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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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 464
MDHB364PassAuthorizing 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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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 678
MDHB601PassAltering 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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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 569
MDHB737PassRepealing 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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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 577
MDHB761PassProhibiting, 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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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 676
MDHB766PassProhibiting 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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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 682
MDHB1032PassEstablishing the Tourist Area and Corridor Signage Program to create a system of supplemental guide signs to direct motorists to eligible individual attractions by directing the motorists first to groups of attractions; requiring the State Highway Ad...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 458
MDHB979PassAltering the regulatory approach for controlling invasive plant species in the State, including repealing certain provisions of law relating to a two-tiered regulatory approach and requiring the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a list of prohibi...
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2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 590
MDHB280PassAuthorizing a county or a municipality to establish a certain fund for the purpose of providing support for the repair of infrastructure in a community subject to a condominium association or a homeowners association; and requiring that certain prope...
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2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 298
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
MDHB836Engross

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Requiring the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of the Environment, to establish a process for performing major highway capacity expansion project impact assessments; requiring the Department and a metropolitan plannin...
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2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator King) Adopted
MDHB1055Engross

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Requiring each State agency, county, and municipality to maintain certain records of its highway salt application and submit to the Department of the Environment by July 1 each year a report on its highway salt application for the previous fiscal yea...
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2024-04-08
Motion Laid Over (Senator Kagan) Adopted
MDHB344Engross

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Establishing certain standards and requirements for implementing the Vision Zero program under the Maryland Department of Transportation; requiring the Department to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 31 each year on the stat...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1070Engross

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Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority to transfer $75,000,000 annually, beginning July 1, 2025, to the Transportation Trust Fund and to continue to make the transfer until the Authority has transferred total cumulative payments in the amoun...
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2024-04-04
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB173Engross

Sine Die
Prohibiting a person from disposing of yard waste collected on the grounds of a State building or a State highway in a single-use plastic container; requiring a person to collect yard waste on the grounds of a State building or a State highway in a c...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1312Intro

Sine Die
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
MDHB356Engross

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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
MDHB612Engross

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Repealing the requirement that a local authority in Montgomery County perform an engineering and traffic investigation before decreasing the maximum speed limit on a highway; and authorizing a local authority in Montgomery County to implement new spe...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB653Engross

Sine Die
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
MDHB665Engross

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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
MDHB1001Engross

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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
MDHB101Intro

Sine Die
Requiring the State Highway Administration to provide certain notices to the owner or operator of a utility facility for the removal, relocation, or adjustment of the utility facility for a State highway project; requiring the owner or operator of th...
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2024-03-16
Referred to interim study by Economic Matters
MDHB511Engross

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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

Sine Die
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

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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
MDHB389Intro

Sine Die
Repealing a requirement that a political subdivision maintain and repair certain sidewalks constructed by any developer of an industrial, commercial, or apartment area along a highway maintained by the State Highway Administration; and repealing a re...
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2024-02-27
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB278Engross

Sine Die
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
MDHB263Intro

Sine Die
Requiring the State Highway Administration to maintain and repair certain sidewalks and bicycle pathways instead of the political subdivision in which the sidewalks and bicycle pathways are located; requiring the Administration to maintain and repair...
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2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB1278Intro

Sine Die
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

Sine Die
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

Sine Die
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

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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
MDHB1126Intro

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Prohibiting certain common carriers from damaging certain public infrastructure necessitating the closure of the infrastructure; establishing that a violation of the Act is a public nuisance; and authorizing the State or a local government to bring a...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB1309Intro

Sine Die
Requiring the State Highway Administration to provide comments on an application for a development project within 30 days after the complete project application is received.
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2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1447Intro

Sine Die
Authorizing a person to operate a fully autonomous vehicle on a highway under certain circumstances, subject to certain standards, requirements, and prohibitions.
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2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB924Intro

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Establishing the Baltimore Region, Capital Region, and Southern Maryland Region transportation authorities to develop and implement certain congestion relief plans; establishing the Baltimore Region, Capital Region, and Southern Maryland Region conge...
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2024-02-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB956Intro

Sine Die
Establishing the Public-Private Partnership Oversight Review Board to review public-private partnership presolicitation reports and make certain recommendations; requiring a certain reporting agency to include in presolicitation reports for public-pr...
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2024-02-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1186Intro

Sine Die
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
MDHB1129Intro

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Requiring the Department of Natural Resources, in collaboration with the State Highway Administration, to identify and prioritize certain species whose habitat or movement corridors intersect with State highways and develop tools, technology, and tec...
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2024-02-08
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1160Intro

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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

Sine Die
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
MDHB974Intro

Sine Die
Increasing civil penalties for violations recorded by speed monitoring systems on Maryland Route 210 (Indian Head Highway) in Prince George's County that are second or subsequent violations or that involve exceeding the maximum speed limit by certain...
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2024-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB781Intro

Sine Die
Requiring the State Highway Administration to use rubber modified asphalt in the construction, reconstruction, and repair of State highways; and requiring the Administration to consider different types of rubber modified asphalt, including those prod...
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2024-02-05
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
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