---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicle Laws - School Bus Monitoring Cameras - Civil Penalty"
description: "Vehicle Laws - School Bus Monitoring Cameras - Civil Penalty"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 154"
citation: "Maryland SB 154 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicle Laws - Rules of the Road", "Citations", "District Courts", "Fines", "Law Enforcement", "Montgomery County", "Motor Vehicle Operation", "Penalties and Sentences", "Reports", "School Buses", "Sunset", "Video"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["King"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 26
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2017-01-16"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a1445ea-95df-453e-8c7c-14e993775ab9"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB154&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "9a314a1548d6c9a53365c096ba883c1d70edd1c3b68401b28ca7045bc650a0aa"
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 154 (2017) — Vehicle Laws - School Bus Monitoring Cameras - Civil Penalty

## 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/sb/sb0154f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **123–12** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **127–8** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- King — primary (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-16** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Hearing 1/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-08** Favorable with Amendments {778678/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-08** Floor Amendment {863125/1 (Senator Simonaire) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2017-02-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-13** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-14** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-06** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable with Amendments {480115/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (123-12) `passage`
- **2017-04-07** Senate Refuses to Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-07** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2017-04-07** Conference Committee Appointed
- **2017-04-07** Senators Brochin, Norman, and Smith
- **2017-04-08** House Refuses to Recede
- **2017-04-08** Conference Committee Appointed
- **2017-04-08** Delegates Beidle, Folden, and Wivell
- **2017-04-10** Conference Committee Report Adopted
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Conference Committee Report Adopted
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (127-8) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 744 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a1445ea-95df-453e-8c7c-14e993775ab9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).