---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Highway Administration - Sale or Lease of Naming Rights for Rest Areas and Welcome Centers"
description: "State Highway Administration - Sale or Lease of Naming Rights for Rest Areas and Welcome Centers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 24"
citation: "Maryland SB 24 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Transportation - Highways", "Appropriations", "Construction", "Federal Government", "Highway Administration", "State", "Highways", "Leases and Rent", "Names", "Postal Service", "Prices", "Revenue and Taxes", "Rules and Regulations", "Signs and Billboards", "Time", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Klausmeier"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-08-17"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5284989a-6633-4e86-bdeb-b14b025c2f4f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB24&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "8bb87224dfcc3c5d9a94dfe165cc932295c3748719226395dd4678d6ab858af5"
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 24 (2018) — State Highway Administration - Sale or Lease of Naming Rights for Rest Areas and Welcome Centers

## 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/sb0024f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **124–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Klausmeier — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-08-17** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-17** Hearing 1/24 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2018-02-05** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-02-08** Third Reading Passed (45-1) `passage`
- **2018-02-09** 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
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed (124-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 223 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5284989a-6633-4e86-bdeb-b14b025c2f4f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).