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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Wildlife - Protections and Highway Crossings"
+description: "Wildlife - Protections and Highway Crossings"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 731"
+citation: "Maryland HB 731 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Addison", "Allen", "Behler", "Foley", "Guyton", "Healey", "Hill", "Lehman", "Palakovich Carr", "Ruth", "Stein", "Terrasa", "Valderrama", "Woods"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-27"
+last_action: "2025-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71ee3521-c954-4e96-9cd6-f586de010935"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0731?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "d282dd5de22c158e8e041ebaee63e0c5b83061e8a41d3df6525339b43dcdf2d9"
+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 731 (2025) — Wildlife - Protections and Highway Crossings
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Wildlife - Protections and Highway Crossings** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_549_hb0731t.pdf)
+2. **First - Wildlife - Protections and Highway Crossings** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0731f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Wildlife - Protections and Highway Crossings** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0731t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **34–13** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **101–36** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Addison — primary (person)
+- Allen — primary (person)
+- Behler — primary (person)
+- Foley — primary (person)
+- Guyton — primary (person)
+- Healey — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Lehman — primary (person)
+- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
+- Ruth — primary (person)
+- Stein — primary (person)
+- Terrasa — primary (person)
+- Valderrama — primary (person)
+- Woods — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-27** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-29** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-17** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-28** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-28** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 549 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71ee3521-c954-4e96-9cd6-f586de010935`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+