---
type: "Bill"
title: "County Boards of Education – Student Transportation – Vehicles and Report"
description: "County Boards of Education – Student Transportation – Vehicles and Report"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 72"
citation: "Maryland HB 72 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderton"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 28
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-09-15"
last_action: "2021-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87cf5901-2caf-4a7f-9ebf-983a362cbe12"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0072?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "b148ef110a6594af4141cd83cbb0771f2ccf236e2b286f41afb02ea114f396a2"
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 72 (2021) — County Boards of Education – Student Transportation – Vehicles and Report

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - County Boards of Education – Student Transportation – Vehicles and Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_197_hb0072t.pdf)
2. **First - County Boards of Education - Student Transportation - Vehicles** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0072f.pdf)
3. **Third - County Boards of Education - Student Transportation - Vehicles** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0072t.pdf)

## Votes

- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Anderton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-09-15** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-13** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2020-12-22** Hearing 1/20 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-12** Motion Special Order until Later This Session (Delegate Luedtke) Adopted
- **2021-03-12** Floor Amendment {
- **2021-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-17** Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-30** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-30** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-01** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2021-04-01** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2021-04-01** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Washington, Smith and Hornberger)
- **2021-04-02** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2021-04-02** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2021-04-02** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Washington, Smith and Hornberger)
- **2021-04-02** Motion to Reconsider Third Reading (Senator Pinsky) Adopted
- **2021-04-02** Motion to Reconsider Amendments (Senator Pinsky) Adopted
- **2021-04-02** Motion to withdraw Amendments (Senator Pinsky) Adopted
- **2021-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-02** Senate Recede
- **2021-04-02** Senate Recede
- **2021-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2021-05-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 197 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/87cf5901-2caf-4a7f-9ebf-983a362cbe12`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).