---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicle Laws – Overweight Vehicles – Heavy Weight Port Corridor Permit"
description: "Vehicle Laws – Overweight Vehicles – Heavy Weight Port Corridor Permit"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1401"
citation: "Maryland HB 1401 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicle Laws - Equipment and Inspections", "Fees", "State Highway Administration", "Highways", "Licenses", "Motor Vehicles", "Motor Vehicle Equipment", "Ports", "Rules and Regulations", "Traffic Regulation", "Transportation", "Department of", "Transportation", "Trucks", "Weights and Measures"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barve"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-27"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e91007f3-5338-4388-92e9-77a20ac9df09"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1401&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "83142c8353cf3fd3f72beb696f44d51d08dcf7f7a95b0d6c915e6b2eb4533ae8"
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 1401 (2019) — Vehicle Laws – Overweight Vehicles – Heavy Weight Port Corridor Permit

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb1401f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barve — primary (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
- Parrott — cosponsor (person)
- Wivell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-27** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-01** Rereferred to Environment and Transportation
- **2019-03-05** Hearing 3/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-16** Favorable with Amendments {790319/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-18** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 254 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e91007f3-5338-4388-92e9-77a20ac9df09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).