Transportation - Highways
Maryland 2015 Regular Session
State Highway Administration - Entrance to State Highway - Permit Process [HB-762]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Construction ]
[Infrastructure ]
Requiring the State Highway Administration to grant or deny a request for a permit to make an entrance from a commercial or industrial property to specified State highways within 45 days after receiving the request; requiring the Administration to provide a specified written notice and explanation to an applicant for a permit if the Administration denies a permit request; authorizing an applicant for a permit whose request is denied to appeal to a specified circuit court; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Haven Neely Shoemaker
Unfavorable Report By Environment And Transportation on 03/23/2015
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Thomas J. Hatem Memorial Bridge - Multiple Axle Vehicles - Toll Rates [HB-747]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority to establish specified tolls for specified multi-axle vehicles using the Thomas J. Hatem Memorial Bridge; and authorizing the Authority to adopt regulations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Cecil County Delegation
Unfavorable Report By Environment And Transportation on 03/19/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Maryland Transportation Authority - Membership [HB-639]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Altering the membership of the Maryland Transportation Authority to include specified members of the General Assembly as nonvoting members of the Authority serving in an advisory capacity only; specifying criteria concerning the appointment, tenure, and compensation of the legislative members of the Authority; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Meagan Christin Simonaire
Unfavorable Report By Environment And Transportation on 03/19/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
State Highway Administration - Entrance to State Highway - Permit Process [HB-621]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Construction ]
Requiring the State Highway Administration to consider whether a proposed entrance to a State highway is consistent with the comprehensive plan when determining whether to grant or deny a permit for the entrance; requiring the Administration to determine whether to grant or deny a permit based on a preponderance of specified evidence; requiring the Administration to grant or deny a permit request on or before a specified date; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Healey
Unfavorable Report By Environment And Transportation on 03/23/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
State Highway Administration - Highway Work Permittees - Notice of Sidewalk Closure [HB-545]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Construction ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring a person who obtains a specified permit from the State Highway Administration for work that will cause a sidewalk to be closed or who does the work associated with the permit to provide, at least 72 hours in advance, written notice of a sidewalk closure to affected business and property owners and post a notice at the work site providing specified information.
Sponsored by: Rep. C. William Frick
Unfavorable Report By Environment And Transportation on 04/01/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Transportation - Highway User Revenues - Phased Restoration [HB-484]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Funding ]
Increasing the portion of highway user revenues that is distributed to local governments; altering the allocation of the local share of highway user revenues among Baltimore City, counties, and municipalities; and repealing obsolete language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tony McConkey
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/06/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Transportation - Dedication of Structures (Hero's Highway Act) [HB-466]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Veterans ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the Department of Transportation to establish a process by which a member of the General Assembly, another elected official, or any member of the general public may request that the Department dedicate a bridge or another appropriate structure under the jurisdiction of the Department to a specified deceased member of the armed forces or an emergency responder who died in the line of duty; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. William C. Smith
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 53 on 04/14/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
State Highway Administration - Bicycle and Pedestrian Priority Areas [HB-450]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Requiring the State Highway Administration, under specified circumstances, to make a determination on whether to designate specified areas as bicycle and pedestrian priority areas by specified dates; clarifying that the Administration and a local government each must make a specified designation before a specified plan is required to be implemented; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric G Luedtke
Vetoed By The Governor (duplicative) on 05/12/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Calvert and St. Mary's Counties - Scenic Byways - Signs [HB-286]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Agriculture ]
[Food ]
Authorizing the State Highway Administration to issue a permit for an outdoor sign along or near a scenic byway on a federal-aid primary highway in Calvert County or St. Mary's County in conformance with federal law if the sign was erected on or before January 1, 2008, or is a directional sign for a facility that sells principally local agricultural or aquacultural products and is located within a 5-mile radius of the sign; establishing specified standards for a sign erected under the Act; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark N Fisher
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 83 on 04/14/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Maryland Transportation Authority - Francis Scott Key Bridge - Toll Discount Plans [HB-214]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority to offer to users of the Francis Scott Key Bridge the same toll discount plans that the Authority offered to users of the Thomas J. Hatem Memorial Bridge on January 1, 2015.
Sponsored by: Rep. Meagan Christin Simonaire
Unfavorable Report By Environment And Transportation on 03/19/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Maryland Transportation Authority - Chesapeake Bay Bridge - Toll Collection [HB-15]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority to implement a procedure at the William Preston Lane, Jr. Memorial Chesapeake Bay Bridge by July 1, 2024, that requires that all tolls be paid by an electronic means that allows vehicles to pass through the toll plaza without stopping at a toll booth except for a single "cash only" lane that the Authority may provide for the payment of tolls in cash.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tony McConkey
Unfavorable Report By Environment And Transportation; Withdrawn on 03/02/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Highway Construction and Maintenance - Use of Recycled Aggregate [HB-1202]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Construction ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Environmental ]
[Infrastructure ]
Requiring each highway construction or maintenance project that includes a pavement component to use at least 10% recycled aggregate in all bound pavement layers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ned Carey
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 02/25/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
State Highway Administration - Signs Along State Highways - Public Libraries [HB-1153]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Libraries ]
Requiring the State Highway Administration to place a sign along a specified State highway indicating the presence of a public library if there is a public library within one-half mile of an exit ramp on the highway.
Sponsored by: Rep. James E Proctor
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 02/20/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Anne Arundel County - Solicitation of Money or Donations From Occupants of Vehicles - Prohibitions and Permit Program [HB-1152]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Community Development ]
Altering a prohibition, in Anne Arundel County, to prohibit a person from standing, or causing, encouraging, allowing, or petitioning another to stand, in a roadway, a median divider, or an intersection to solicit money or donations from the occupant of a vehicle; authorizing the governing body of the county or of a municipal corporation in the county to enact a specified permit program; authorizing permits for no more than 7 calendar days; requiring the county to develop a plan to include traffic safety training; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Arundel County Delegation
First Reading Senate Rules on 04/11/2015
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Transportation - Advertising Signs on State Highways for Agricultural Businesses Authorized [SB-941]
[Agriculture ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Small Business ]
Authorizing, subject to specified requirements, a person to place or maintain an advertising sign for specified agricultural businesses on a State highway; providing that specified provisions of law regulating the placement and maintenance of outdoor signs in specified locations do not apply to a sign placed in accordance with the Act; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Roy P Dyson
Hearing 3/19 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/19/2014
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Maryland Transportation Authority - John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway - Toll Plazas [SB-928]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
Prohibiting the Maryland Transportation Authority from making any capital investment in the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway toll plaza; requiring the Authority to remove the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway toll plaza when it becomes functionally obsolete and establish a new toll plaza for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway at a specified location; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen S Hershey
Unfavorable Report By Finance on 03/19/2014
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
State Highway Administration - Compost and Compost-Based Products - Specification [SB-814]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Environmental ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Construction ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Water ]
Establishing that the use of compost and compost-based products in State highway construction projects is a best management practice for specified pollution mitigation strategies; requiring the State Highway Administration to establish a specification for the acquisition and use of compost and compost-based products for specified pollution mitigation strategies on or before December 30, 2014; requiring the Administration to update the specification as necessary; requiring the Administration to post the specification on its Web site; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James E DeGrange
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 04/05/2014
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Maryland Transportation Authority - All-Electronic Tolling - Study [SB-730]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority to study and report on the status of its initiative to implement all-electronic tolling; requiring the study to address specified matters, including an analysis of all-electronic tolling in other states and a description of various all-electronic tolling programs; requiring the Authority to submit the report on or before January 1, 2016; and prohibiting the Authority from implementing all-electronic tolling at the Thomas J. Hatem Memorial Bridge before January 1, 2016.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen S Hershey
Vetoed By The Governor (duplicative) on 05/15/2014
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Maryland Transportation Authority - Electronic Toll Collection - Procedures [SB-697]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Increasing the period of time during which a person who receives a notice of toll due must pay a video toll; requiring a notice of toll due to be mailed separately for each individual video toll incurred in an envelope marked in a specified manner; increasing the period of time during which a person who receives a notice of toll due may assert specified statutory defenses; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Norman R Stone
Unfavorable Report By Finance on 03/19/2014
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Public Safety - Highway Work Zones - Off-Duty Law Enforcement Officers Required [SB-677]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Construction ]
Requiring the State Highway Administration to require a contractor or other person that requires a work zone to be established on a highway to retain, under specified circumstances, an off-duty law enforcement officer to perform specified services in the work zone; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. John C Astle
Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings on 03/10/2014