---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency Vehicles - Organ Delivery Vehicles"
description: "Emergency Vehicles - Organ Delivery Vehicles"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 475"
citation: "Maryland SB 475 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicle Laws - Equipment and Inspections", "Vehicle Laws - Rules of the Road", "Emergency Medical Services", "Health Occupations", "Licenses", "Motor Vehicles", "Motor Vehicle Administration", "Motor Vehicle Equipment", "Motor Vehicle Operation", "Organ Donorship"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Middleton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-26"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d173b2ac-6a33-4243-b5a7-104c2375f4e5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB475&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "67d2e6083fece9095d8eca4665acd8ccff70fb12f6443856aa9e50f0cce28b04"
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 475 (2018) — Emergency Vehicles - Organ Delivery 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/sb/sb0475f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Middleton — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-26** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-26** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-27** Favorable with Amendments {178570/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-01** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-02** 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 (139-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 187 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d173b2ac-6a33-4243-b5a7-104c2375f4e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).