---
type: "Bill"
title: "Railroad Grade Crossings - Exempt Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Plaque"
description: "Railroad Grade Crossings - Exempt Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Plaque"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 534"
citation: "Maryland HB 534 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicle Laws - Rules of the Road", "Exemptions", "Highway Administration", "State", "Motor Vehicles", "Railroads", "Signs and Billboards"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Parrott"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ac65ea2-2aec-426b-8a40-abbf36ea0fbe"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB534&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "90dfcedd30e28daefea56218e8408214ca7f081081305c085134c94d05971e75"
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 534 (2017) — Railroad Grade Crossings - Exempt Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Plaque

## 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/hb0534f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Parrott — primary (person)
- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
- Kittleman — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- W. Miller — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-30** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-06** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-10** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-13** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-29** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-30** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 136 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ac65ea2-2aec-426b-8a40-abbf36ea0fbe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).