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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Motor Vehicles - Operation When Approaching Vehicle With Visual Signals"
+description: "Motor Vehicles - Operation When Approaching Vehicle With Visual Signals"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 531"
+citation: "Maryland HB 531 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Vehicle Laws - Rules of the Road", "Highways", "Motor Vehicles", "Motor Vehicle Operation", "Safety", "Towing", "Traffic Regulation", "Trucks"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Healey"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-01-26"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4cee186c-e83f-4822-9849-184ee7ebf4f2"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB531&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "aebbad0abc1376fc7c624640c5a37ae587dfde5e9f5d4aa9d287cc54a1ae00be"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
+---
+
+# Maryland HB 531 (2018) — Motor Vehicles - Operation When Approaching Vehicle With Visual Signals
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0531f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Favorable — **41–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Healey — primary (person)
+- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
+- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
+- Frush — cosponsor (person)
+- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Stein — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-26** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-30** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-05** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-06** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-09** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-26** Second Reading Passed (41-0)
+- **2018-03-27** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-27** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 544 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4cee186c-e83f-4822-9849-184ee7ebf4f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+