---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transportation - Complete Streets Policy - Adoption"
description: "Transportation - Complete Streets Policy - Adoption"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 850"
citation: "Maryland SB 850 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Transportation - Highways", "Administrative Agencies", "Airports", "Bicycles", "Buses", "Environmental Matters", "Highway Administration", "State", "Highways", "Mass Transit", "Motor Vehicles", "Pedestrians", "Safety", "Sidewalks", "Signs and Billboards", "Transportation", "Department of", "Transportation", "Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mathias"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-05"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7cc2ab8-299d-4003-91d8-43f1712ab342"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB850&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "4094d5cd58da3ee53254c7ff82fb9359a915b8a644e597b5192385b596a23467"
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 850 (2018) — Transportation - Complete Streets Policy - Adoption

## 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/sb0850f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **115–21** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-05** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing 3/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-19** Favorable with Amendments {437871/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-19** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-20** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {560513/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-07** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (115-21) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 718 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e7cc2ab8-299d-4003-91d8-43f1712ab342`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).