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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Vehicle Laws - Towed, Removed, or Abandoned Vehicles - Electronic Notice to Owner"
+description: "Vehicle Laws - Towed, Removed, or Abandoned Vehicles - Electronic Notice to Owner"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 40"
+citation: "Maryland SB 40 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Muse"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-11-01"
+last_action: "2025-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff721e8b-a4a6-4a4c-ada3-69a8760007f7"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0040?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "bcb5c44e6a96e86721e3a96fd3abb0cd966f47ad02c82fb986dc45f269425757"
+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 SB 40 (2025) — Vehicle Laws - Towed, Removed, or Abandoned Vehicles - Electronic Notice to Owner
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Vehicle Laws - Towed, Removed, or Abandoned Vehicles - Electronic Notice to Owner** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_521_sb0040t.pdf)
+2. **First - Vehicle Laws - Towed, Removed, or Abandoned Vehicles - Electronic Notice to Owner** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0040f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Vehicle Laws - Towed, Removed, or Abandoned Vehicles - Electronic Notice to Owner** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0040t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Muse — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-11-01** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2025-01-08** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-09** Hearing 1/22 at 10:00 a.m.
+- **2025-02-03** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-04** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-02-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-02-07** Referred Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-17** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-28** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-28** Motion Special Order until 03/31 (Delegate Hornberger) Adopted
+- **2025-04-01** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 521 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff721e8b-a4a6-4a4c-ada3-69a8760007f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+