---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicle Laws - School Crossing Guards - Authority to Direct Traffic"
description: "Vehicle Laws - School Crossing Guards - Authority to Direct Traffic"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1301"
citation: "Maryland HB 1301 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicle Laws - Rules of the Road", "Education - Miscellaneous", "Education", "Boards of", "Highways", "Law Enforcement", "Motor Vehicles", "Public Schools", "Traffic Regulation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a43e714-522e-42a7-a748-feab24f6e4e0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1301&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "399c1b1ef22a2986ed5eb23c86e8d17d8282134eefe1ddbd8e13bb763825cf6f"
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 1301 (2017) — Vehicle Laws - School Crossing Guards - Authority to Direct Traffic

## 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/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1301f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Frush — primary (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-10** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {720810/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-16** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-05** Favorable with Amendments {548779/1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-05** Committee Amendment Withdrawn
- **2017-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-06** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 760 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a43e714-522e-42a7-a748-feab24f6e4e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).