---
type: "Bill"
title: "Farm Area Motor Vehicles - Registration and Authorized Use"
description: "Farm Area Motor Vehicles - Registration and Authorized Use"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 331"
citation: "Maryland HB 331 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vehicle Laws - Licensing and Registration", "Agriculture", "Emergency Bills", "Highways", "Motor Vehicles", "Motor Vehicle Registration", "Sunset"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jacobs"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-28"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3efb9d71-b0b3-4540-9fb2-4a646e8aea24"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB331&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "006ba7ba7914fc193c2c0522e7064a4f0683c62c39b7014de1870c4132967f5d"
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 331 (2019) — Farm Area Motor Vehicles - Registration and Authorized Use

## 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/hb0331f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jacobs — primary (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
- Arikan — cosponsor (person)
- Beitzel — cosponsor (person)
- Boteler — cosponsor (person)
- Ciliberti — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
- Hartman — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- Mangione — cosponsor (person)
- Mautz — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Otto — cosponsor (person)
- Pippy — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- Wivell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-28** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-28** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-05** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-06** 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
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 174 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3efb9d71-b0b3-4540-9fb2-4a646e8aea24`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).