Transportation - Highways
Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Traffic Control Signal Modernization Fund – Establishment [HB-1147]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the District Court to impose certain additional court costs on a defendant convicted of or found liable for certain violations of the Maryland Vehicle Law; establishing the Traffic Control Signal Modernization Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to finance the modernization of traffic control signals; requiring the State Highway Administration to develop and implement a certain plan for modernizing traffic control signals in the State on or before December 31 2028; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Neil C Parrott
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/22/2021
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Maryland Transportation Authority - John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway - Toll Plazas [HB-1329]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
Prohibiting the Maryland Transportation Authority from making any capital investment in the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway toll plaza; and 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 location between Maryland Route 279 and Maryland Route 272.
Sponsored by: Rep. Cecil County Delegation
Unfavorable Report By Environment And Transportation on 03/17/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Transportation – I–270 and I–495 – Prohibition on Toll Lanes (Stop Unnecessary Toll Lanes Act of 2021) [HB-705]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
Prohibiting the Maryland Transportation Authority, or a private entity participating in a public-private partnership, from imposing a toll for the use of Interstate 495 or Interstate 270.
Sponsored by: Rep. Julian Ivey
Hearing 2/12 At 1:30 P.m. (environment And Transportation) on 01/29/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Transportation - I-270 and I-495 - Prohibition on Adding New Lanes [HB-703]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
Prohibiting the State Highway Administration from adding any new lanes to Interstate 270 or Interstate 495.
Sponsored by: Rep. Julian Ivey
Unfavorable Report By Environment And Transportation on 03/18/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Maryland Transportation Authority - John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway - Toll Plazas [SB-541]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
Prohibiting the Maryland Transportation Authority from making any capital investment in the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway toll plaza; and 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 location between Maryland Route 279 and Maryland Route 272.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen S Hershey
Hearing 2/24 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/31/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Criminal Law - Disruption of Highway Usage - Prohibition [HB-645]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Prohibiting a person from knowingly and without lawful purpose obstructing, hindering, impeding, or blocking the use of a highway; and establishing that knowingly and without lawful purpose obstructing, hindering, impeding, or blocking the use of a highway is a misdemeanor and is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or a fine not exceeding $2,500 or both.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven J. Arentz
Hearing 3/02 At 1:30 P.m. on 02/10/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Transportation - Highway User Revenues - Revenue and Distribution [HB-649]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Funding ]
Altering the amounts of capital grants calculated based on highway user revenues that are required to be appropriated to Baltimore City, counties, and municipalities in certain fiscal years.
Sponsored by: Rep. Carl Anderton
Hearing 2/11 At 1:30 P.m. on 01/26/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Maryland Transportation Authority - Vehicle Not Using Bridge - No Toll Payment Required [SB-422]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Prohibiting the Maryland Transportation Authority from charging a toll at a toll plaza adjacent to a bridge that is a transportation facilities project for a vehicle that does not traverse the bridge; and requiring the Authority to direct, by physical traffic management measures, vehicles that do not traverse the bridge into a toll-free lane through the toll plaza or construct a lane bypassing the toll plaza for use by vehicles that do not traverse the bridge.
Sponsored by: Sen. Johnny Ray Salling
Hearing 2/17 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/26/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Intersection of State and Local Highways – Crosswalks and Curb Ramps [SB-387]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Public Safety ]
[Construction ]
Requiring the State Highway Administration to install and maintain a crosswalk and curb ramps at intersections of State and local highways under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bob Cassilly
First Reading Finance on 01/15/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Transportation - Highway User Revenues - Distribution [SB-362]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Altering, beginning in fiscal year 2020, the amounts of capital grants calculated based on highway user revenues that are required to be appropriated to Baltimore City, counties, and municipalities.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cory V. McCray
Referred Environment And Transportation on 03/19/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
State Highway Administration - State Highways and Interstate Highways - Litter Collection and Mowing [SB-26]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Environmental ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Construction ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the State Highway Administration to collect litter and mow the grass along State highways and certain interstate highways on a consistent and regular basis; requiring the Administration to seasonally adjust the frequency with which litter collection and mowing occurs, subject to certain requirements; requiring the Administration to contract with a Maryland-based company to collect litter and provide mowing services under the Act; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Arthur Ellis
Hearing 2/10 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/15/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
State Highways – Designations – President Barack Obama Highway [SB-213]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Requiring the State Highway Administration to designate Maryland Route 210 as the President Barack Obama Highway.
Sponsored by: Sen. Arthur Ellis
Hearing 2/10 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/15/2021
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
I-495 and I-270 Public-Private Partnership - Partnership Agreement - Requirements (Maryland Department of Transportation Promises Act of 2021) [HB-67]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Community Development ]
Prohibiting the Board of Public Works from approving a phase public-private partnership agreement for the I-495 and I-270 Public-Private Partnership Program unless the payment of the toll revenue is trasferred to a certain special fund; authorizing a the public-private partnership agreement for the Program to require a bidder to agree to initiate a community benefit agreement; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marc Alan Korman
Third Reading Passed (101-35) on 03/22/2021
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Maryland Transportation Authority - Broening Highway/Authority Drive Toll Facility - Bypass [SB-935]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority to allow a vehicle to bypass the Broening Highway/Authority Drive toll facility under certain circumstances; and specifying that the Authority may satisfy the requirements of the Act by constructing and maintaining a certain jersey barrier.
Sponsored by: Sen. Johnny Ray Salling
Hearing 3/14 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/14/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Construction of a Highway or County Road - Commercial Property - Access Roads [SB-906]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Construction ]
[Economic Development ]
[Small Business ]
Requiring the State Highway Administration, a county, or a municipal corporation to offer certain commercial businesses impacted by the construction of certain highways an entrance to certain access roads; and requiring the commercial businesses to reimburse the Administration, a county, or a municipal corporation certain costs related to the entrance to the access road.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas McClain Middleton
Hearing 3/29 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/29/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Local Infrastructure Fast Track for Maryland Act [SB-901]
[Infrastructure ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Economic Development ]
[Construction ]
Authorizing the Office of Legislative Audits to perform an audit of local governments that receive a distribution of highway user revenues; increasing, over 7 fiscal years, 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; requiring, if distributions to municipalities do not equal $26,400,000, that additional distributions of highway user revenues be made to municipalities; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nancy King
Hearing 3/08 At 2:45 P.m. on 03/08/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Transportation - Complete Streets Policy - Adoption [SB-850]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Community Development ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring certain modal administrations of the Department of Transportation to adopt a complete streets policy that provides information for the implementation of design features that accommodate and facilitate safe and convenient access and mobility to facilities by all users; specifying the requirements of a complete streets policy and recognizing that facilities differ and user needs should be balanced to ensure community enhancement; providing exceptions to certain requirements under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas McClain Middleton
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 718 on 05/15/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Transportation - Highway User Revenues - Distribution [SB-516]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Infrastructure ]
Altering the amounts of and process for appropriating highway user funds that are required to be distributed to Baltimore City, counties, and municipalities in certain fiscal years; requiring that certain capital highway grants may be made only under certain circumstances; requiring that in certain fiscal years highway user revenues are required to be used as authorized under the Transportation Trust Fund; repealing obsolete distributions and transfers of highway user revenues for certain fiscal years; etc,
Sponsored by: Sen. James C. Rosapepe
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 331 on 04/24/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Transportation - Complete Streets Program - Establishment [SB-407]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Public Health ]
[Community Development ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Grants ]
[Funding ]
Establishing the Complete Streets Program to provide matching grants to certified jurisdictions to promote healthy communities; providing for program funds to be provided by the Governor in the State budget; specifying the requirements for a local government to be designated as a certified jurisdiction; authorizing a certified jurisdiction to apply for matching grants from the Program; requiring the Department of Transportation to issue a report to certain committees of the General Assembly by December 1, 2020; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas McClain Middleton
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 722 on 05/15/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Crossing - Eastern Shore Local Government Consent - Repeal [SB-34]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Construction ]
Providing that a requirement that a majority of the governments of certain Eastern Shore counties affected by the construction of a toll road, toll highway, or toll bridge consent to the construction does not apply to the construction of a toll road, toll highway, or toll bridge crossing the Chesapeake Bay.
Sponsored by: Sen. Edward R. Reilly
Hearing 1/24 At 2:30 P.m. on 01/24/2018