---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Transportation – Pedestrian and Bicycle Access to Schools"
description: "Department of Transportation – Pedestrian and Bicycle Access to Schools"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 285"
citation: "Maryland HB 285 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicle Laws - Rules of the Road", "Bicycles", "Pedestrians", "Private Schools", "Public Schools", "Reports", "Safety", "Sunset", "Transportation", "Department of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Luedtke"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-22"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/893e17f9-f852-4b00-aa3d-5b67598554c8"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB285&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "412e876829473ffe309d81ffdca32c440c746da77d74b0d69835a195f3ebb872"
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 285 (2018) — Department of Transportation – Pedestrian and Bicycle Access to Schools

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0285f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Luedtke — primary (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-22** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-23** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {420419/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-15** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-16** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-02** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-03** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 295 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/893e17f9-f852-4b00-aa3d-5b67598554c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).