Traffic Regulation
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Bicycles, Play Vehicles, and Unicycles - Authorizations and Requirements (Jay's Law) [SB-392]
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 a crosswalk to yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian or a person using an electric personal assistive mobility device.
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Gettr Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Bicycles, Play Vehicles, and Unicycles - Crosswalks [HB-422]
Authorizing a person operating a bicycle, play vehicle, or unicycle at an intersection who is facing a red signal to enter the intersection to cross the highway in the direction of a pedestrian control "walk" signal; and requiring, before entering an intersection, a person operating a bicycle, play vehicle, or unicycle to yield the right-of-way to any vehicle or pedestrian lawfully using the intersection.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Prince George's County - Speed Monitoring Systems - Maryland Route 5 PG 308-25 [HB-371]
Authorizing the placement and use of speed monitoring systems on Maryland Route 5 in Prince George's County, subject to placement and signage requirements; requiring certain revenue collected by Prince George's County as a result of violations enforced by a speed monitoring system on Maryland Route 5 to be used for State and local highway and pedestrian safety improvements on and in the vicinity of Maryland Route 5 in Prince George's County; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Bicycles, Play Vehicles, and Unicycles - Authorizations and Requirements (Jay's Law) [HB-375]
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 a crosswalk to yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian or a person using an electric personal assistive mobility device.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Baltimore County - Speed Monitoring Systems - Interstate 695 and Interstate 83 [SB-338]
Authorizing the State Highway Administration to place and use not more than four speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 and Interstate 83 in Baltimore County subject to notice requirements; requiring that fines collected in Baltimore County as a result of violations enforced by speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 and Interstate 83 be used to recover costs and assist in covering the cost of roadway and safety improvements on Interstate 695 and Interstate 83 in Baltimore County; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Prince George's County - Speed Monitoring Systems - Maryland Route 210 PG 306-25 [HB-349]
Increasing the maximum civil penalties for violations recorded by speed monitoring systems on Maryland Route 210 (Piscataway Highway) in Prince George's County that involve exceeding the maximum speed limit by certain amounts.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Speed Monitoring Systems - Safety Corridors [HB-348]
Authorizing the State Highway Administration to use speed monitoring systems in areas determined to be of high risk to vulnerable road users and priority corridors in the Administration's Pedestrian Safety Action Plan; and requiring the Comptroller to distribute revenue from the civil fines collected from the use of certain monitoring systems to a fund for the State Highway Administration to cover the costs of implementing and administering certain speed monitoring systems, for highway safety purposes and Administration system preservation.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Speed Monitoring Systems - Statements and Certificates of Violations [HB-343]
Authorizing certain technicians to swear to and affirm, based on inspection of recorded images, the occurrence of violations recorded by speed monitoring systems; requiring law enforcement officers and technicians to complete a reasonable training specific to the speed monitoring system before certifying any certificates of violation; and defining "reasonable training" as a sufficient level of education, instruction, and practical experience to ensure competency in the inspection of images generated by speed monitoring systems.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Wicomico County - Vehicle Laws - Prohibition on Roadway Solicitations [HB-320]
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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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Secondary Enforcement and Admissibility of Evidence [SB-292]
Requiring a police officer to document all reasons for a traffic stop or other stop on a citation or police report resulting from the stop; establishing that certain evidence obtained during a traffic stop or other stop in violation of certain provisions may be or is inadmissible in certain proceedings; authorizing a police officer to enforce certain provisions of the Maryland Vehicle Law only as a secondary action; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Stopping, Standing, or Parking in a Bike Lane or Bicycle Path - Prohibition [HB-178]
Prohibiting a person from stopping, standing, or parking a vehicle in a bike lane or bicycle path unless the vehicle is an authorized emergency vehicle, a transit vehicle, a vehicle picking up or discharging disabled individuals, a vehicle that has become unintentionally disabled, or one that is loading or unloading goods for pick-up or delivery; and providing a certain civil penalty.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Stopping, Standing, or Parking in a Bike Lane or Bicycle Path - Prohibition [SB-133]
Prohibiting a person from stopping, standing, or parking a vehicle in a bike lane or bicycle path.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Bicycles - Operation at Intersections [HB-7]
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 the speed of the bicycle to a reasonable rate and yields the right-of-way to any vehicle in the intersection or any approaching vehicle on another highway that is near enough to the intersection to pose an immediate danger
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program and Fund - Alterations [SB-188]
Altering the projects eligible for funding under the Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program; altering the applicants eligible to apply for funding for certain projects under the Program; altering requirements for projects to purchase or install license readers; repealing certain requirements for projects to purchase or install camera networks; repealing minimum and maximum grant amounts under the Program; and expanding the authorized uses of the Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program Fund.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Bus Obstruction Monitoring Systems and Bus Stop Zones [HB-206]
Replacing references to a bus lane monitoring system with references to a bus obstruction monitoring system; prohibiting a person from stopping, standing, or parking a vehicle in a bus stop zone; and clarifying that a person may not stop a vehicle in a dedicated bus lane, subject to certain exceptions.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program and Fund - Alterations [HB-172]
Altering the projects eligible for funding under the Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program; altering the applicants eligible to apply for funding for certain projects under the Program; altering requirements for projects to purchase or install license readers; repealing certain requirements for projects to purchase or install camera networks; repealing minimum and maximum grant amounts under the Program; and expanding the authorized uses of the Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program Fund.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Wicomico County - Vehicle Laws - Prohibition on Roadway Solicitations [SB-101]
Prohibiting a person in Wicomico County from standing in a roadway, median divider, or intersection to solicit money or donations of any kind from the occupant of a vehicle.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles – Speed Monitoring Systems – Penalties [SB-118]
Altering the penalties for a civil citation issued as a result of a recorded image produced by a speed monitoring system.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Injury or Death of Vulnerable Individual - Penalties [HB-234]
Altering the penalties for causing the serious physical injury or death of a vulnerable individual as the result of an individual operating a motor vehicle in a negligent manner; including an individual who is lawfully operating or riding a golf cart or a unicycle on a highway, shoulder, crosswalk, or sidewalk as a vulnerable individual; and providing that an individual convicted of a certain violation is subject to not just a fine of $2,000 but also imprisonment of up to 2 months or both.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Speed Monitoring Systems - Penalties [HB-182]
Altering the penalties for a civil citation issued as a result of a recorded image produced by a speed monitoring system.