---
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: "SB 1069"
citation: "Maryland SB 1069 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicle Laws - Equipment and Inspections", "Agriculture", "Motor Vehicles", "Motor Vehicle Equipment", "Transportation", "Weights and Measures"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mathias"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-12-08"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ad8b918-76ca-4a86-b2f1-1735b65ca64f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB1069&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "28a0748147eb8bd70213dcd2699e524d96c1dae7fdf119145f32d3e611095a9d"
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 1069 (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/sb/sb1069f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mathias — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-08** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Rereferred to Judicial Proceedings
- **2018-02-28** Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-15** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-20** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-12-08** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 495 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4ad8b918-76ca-4a86-b2f1-1735b65ca64f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).