---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor Vehicles - Gross Vehicle Weight - Agricultural Products"
description: "Motor Vehicles - Gross Vehicle Weight - Agricultural Products"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 646"
citation: "Maryland HB 646 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicle Laws - Equipment and Inspections", "Agriculture", "Motor Vehicles", "Motor Vehicle Equipment", "Transportation", "Weights and Measures"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Reilly"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-29"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15a0e513-36b0-4038-aeff-44305a14fb4a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB646&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "fa983fa9c97d3ca1be47ca847ff392960e67b92781b7ad96aff9b74a0912dca4"
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 646 (2018) — Motor Vehicles - Gross Vehicle Weight - Agricultural Products

## 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/hb0646f.pdf)

## Votes

- Favorable — **41–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Reilly — primary (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
- Anderton — cosponsor (person)
- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
- Beitzel — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Folden — cosponsor (person)
- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
- Glass — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Impallaria — cosponsor (person)
- Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- McKay — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Otto — cosponsor (person)
- Parrott — cosponsor (person)
- Rey — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- S. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Sophocleus — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- Wivell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-29** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-30** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-01** Hearing canceled
- **2018-02-01** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-12** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-14** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-14** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-15** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-16** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-26** Second Reading Passed (41-0)
- **2018-03-27** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-27** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 494 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/15a0e513-36b0-4038-aeff-44305a14fb4a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).