Motor Vehicle Administration
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Drunk Driving - Commercial Driver's Licenses - Disqualification From Driving [SB-187]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to disqualify any individual from driving a commercial motor vehicle for 1 year if the individual, while holding a commercial instructional permit or commercial driver's license, drives or attempts to drive any motor vehicle while the alcohol concentration of the person's blood or breath is 0.08 or greater.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 50 on 04/08/2025
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Drunk and Drug-Impaired Driving and Failure to Remain at the Scene - Revocation of Driver's License [HB-70]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to revoke the driver's license of a person who has been convicted of, or been granted probation before judgment for, impaired driving that contributes to an accident, or fails to remain at the scene of an accident, that results in the death or life-threatening injury to another person; authorizing a person whose driver's license is revoked under the Act or for homicide by motor vehicle while impaired to apply for license reinstatement after a certain period of time; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Hearing 1/29 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/10/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Towed, Removed, or Abandoned Vehicles - Electronic Notice to Owner [SB-40]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Authorizing a person who tows or removes a vehicle from a parking lot to provide electronic notice of the tow or removal to the vehicle owner through the Motor Vehicle Administration under certain circumstances; and authorizing a police department that takes an abandoned vehicle into custody to send an electronic notice to the last known registered owner of the vehicle through the Administration under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Muse
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 521 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Health - Cannabis Public Health Advisory Council - Membership [HB-46]
[Cannabis ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Altering the membership of the Cannabis Public Health Advisory Council to include the Administrator of the Motor Vehicle Administration, or the Administrator's designee, and the Executive Director of the Office of Social Equity in the Maryland Cannabis Administration, or the Executive Director's designee.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 364 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Licenses, Identification Cards, and Moped Operator's Permits - Identification of Nonapparent Disability [HB-1456]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Disabilities ]
Requiring that an application for a license, an identification card, or a moped operator's permit allow an applicant to indicate the applicant's nonapparent disability; and requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to ensure that the license, identification card, or moped operator's permit of an applicant who indicates that the applicant has a nonapparent disability includes an "ND" notation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lesley Lopez
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 02/12/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Motor Vehicle Administration - Driving Records - Expungement [HB-1448]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to automatically expunge information in the public driving record of a licensee if the information has been expunged from a court record or a police record.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway
Hearing 2/28 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Fossil Fuel-Powered Appliances and Vehicles - Installation, Use, and Fees [HB-1240]
[Energy ]
[Housing ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Construction ]
[Environmental ]
Prohibiting the Department of the Environment, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the governing body of a county or municipality from prohibiting the use or installation of natural gas- and propane-powered appliances in a home that is under construction or undergoing a 50% remodel or renovation; prohibiting the Motor Vehicle Administration from charging or collecting fees and charges for a certificate of title or vehicle registration based on a vehicle's use of gasoline; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/09/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws – Interstate Highways – Interstate Speed Monitoring Systems [HB-1186]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Infrastructure ]
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 Police Training and Standards Commission, in consultation with the State Highway Administration to develop a training program on the oversight and administration of an interstate speed monitoring program, including a curriculum of best practices in the State; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ric Metzgar
Hearing 2/29 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/09/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Election Law - Automatic Voter Registration - Alterations [HB-1088]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Healthcare ]
Altering automatic voter registration procedures at the Motor Vehicle Administration and the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange; establishing requirements regarding the transmission of automatic voter registration information by the Administration and the Exchange, the processing of the voter registration information by the State Board of Elections, and the sending of notices by the State Board and the Exchange; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jessica Feldmark
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/09/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Income Tax - Opportunity for Filers to Register to Make Anatomical Gift [HB-1068]
[Taxes ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the Comptroller to implement procedures to offer certain income tax return filers the opportunity to register to make an anatomical gift in accordance with the Maryland Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act through a hyperlink to the anatomical gift donor registry.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jessica Feldmark
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 190 on 04/25/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Licenses, Identification Cards, and Moped Operator's Permits - Identification of Nonapparent Disability [SB-1096]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Disabilities ]
Requiring that an application for a license, an identification card, or a moped operator's permit allow an applicant to indicate the applicant's nonapparent disability; and requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to ensure that the license, identification card, or moped operator's permit of an applicant who indicates that the applicant has a nonapparent disability includes an "ND" notation.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Smith
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/07/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Specially Designed Vintage Reproduction Registration Plates [SB-1004]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Taxes ]
Repealing the time limitation within which the Motor Vehicle Administration is required to make available specially designed vintage reproduction registration plates; and requiring the Administration to charge a fee of $100 for the initial issuance and $25 for the renewal of a specially designed vintage reproduction registration plate.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Folden
Hearing 4/03 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/21/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Registration - Annual Surcharge [SB-1065]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Energy ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Environmental ]
Requiring the owners of zero-emission vehicles and plug-in electric drive vehicles that are not zero-emission vehicles to pay an annual surcharge of $150 and $122.50, respectively; authorizing the surcharge to be paid in installment payments; requiring the proceeds collected from the surcharge to be deposited into the Transportation Trust Fund; and requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to refuse to register or renew or transfer the registration of a motor vehicle for failure to pay the surcharge or installments.
Sponsored by: Sen. Guy Guzzone
Hearing 3/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/21/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Disability Parking Placards - Photo Identification [SB-907]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Disabilities ]
Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration, on request, to issue a disability parking placard with an embedded color photograph of the placard holder; and requiring a parking placard with an embedded color photograph of the placard holder to include a privacy sleeve that allows a person to freely display or hide the color photograph.
Sponsored by: Sen. Malcolm Augustine
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/07/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Wildlife – Protections and Highway Crossings [SB-902]
[Animals ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Environmental ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Public Safety ]
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 techniques to identify certain State highway infrastructure locations; requiring the Department of Natural Resources to develop a methodology and a cost estimate for performing a statewide deer population survey on or before November 1, 2024; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Lewis Young
Hearing Canceled on 04/02/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles – Registration – Annual Surcharge [HB-913]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Finance ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Requiring the owner of a motor vehicle to pay a certain annual surcharge in addition to the annual registration fee; authorizing the surcharge to be paid in installment payments; requiring the proceeds collected from the surcharge to be deposited into the Transportation Trust Fund and, under certain circumstances, used for certain purposes; and requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to refuse to register or renew or transfer the registration of a motor vehicle for failure to pay the surcharge or installments.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Hearing 2/22 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Regulated Firearms - Maryland Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearm Process [SB-752]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to create and maintain a Maryland Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearm Registry in which a person may voluntarily enroll for the purpose of being prohibited from obtaining a regulated firearm by December 31, 2024; prohibiting a dealer or other person from selling, renting, loaning, or transferring a regulated firearm to a purchaser, lessee, borrower, or transferee who the dealer or other person knows or has reason to believe is registered on the registry; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeff Waldstreicher
First Reading Judicial Proceedings on 02/01/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Motor Vehicle Administration Records - Access to Digital Photographic Images and Signatures - Baltimore City Agencies [SB-727]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Housing ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Community Development ]
Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to make a digital photographic image or signature of an individual, or the actual stored data thereof, recorded by the Administration available to the Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development or any other agency designated by the Mayor of Baltimore City to enforce certain provisions of law.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jill Carter
Hearing 2/28 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/01/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Regulated Firearms - Maryland Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearm Process [HB-794]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Mental Health ]
[Crime ]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to create and maintain a Maryland Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearm Registry in which a person may voluntarily enroll for the purpose of being prohibited from obtaining a regulated firearm by December 31, 2024; prohibiting a dealer or other person from selling, renting, loaning, or transferring a regulated firearm to a purchaser, lessee, borrower, or transferee who the dealer or other person knows or has reason to believe is registered on the registry; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Ebersole
Hearing Canceled on 02/21/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Obscured or Modified Registration Plates [HB-750]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nick Allen
Third Reading Passed (136-0) on 03/18/2024