---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicle Laws - HOV Lanes - Plug-In Electric Drive and Hybrid Vehicles"
description: "Vehicle Laws - HOV Lanes - Plug-In Electric Drive and Hybrid Vehicles"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 714"
citation: "Maryland HB 714 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicle Laws - Rules of the Road", "Alternative Energy Sources", "Highways", "Motor Vehicles", "Sunset"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McMillan"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-31"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/905bd2aa-ae13-45ec-9f86-21db2af7290d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB714&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "9d31292990becd15b169acbce92119512bfcca64809f684984dd61423e96c45c"
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 714 (2018) — Vehicle Laws - HOV Lanes - Plug-In Electric Drive and Hybrid Vehicles

## 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/hb0714f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **38–8** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **133–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McMillan — primary (person)
- Anderton — cosponsor (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Ciliberti — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
- Folden — cosponsor (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- Otto — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-31** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/22 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 (133-5) `passage`
- **2018-03-16** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed (38-8) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 679 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/905bd2aa-ae13-45ec-9f86-21db2af7290d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).