---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicle Equipment - Portable Variable Messaging Signs - Authorization"
description: "Vehicle Equipment - Portable Variable Messaging Signs - Authorization"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1375"
citation: "Maryland HB 1375 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Addison", "Foley", "Healey", "Stein", "Terrasa"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-07"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5dfd9a79-4c7d-45b9-9bdd-e2d038d20ac8"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1375?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ec5beae3e1ca6283eb78c4666a146572b9e3a1151fc1b2f60096b062784e9121"
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 1375 (2025) — Vehicle Equipment - Portable Variable Messaging Signs - Authorization

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Vehicle Equipment - Portable Variable Messaging Signs - Authorization** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_459_hb1375t.pdf)
2. **First - Vehicle Equipment - Portable Variable Messaging Signs - Authorization** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1375f.pdf)
3. **Third - Vehicle Equipment - Portable Variable Messaging Signs - Authorization** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1375t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Addison — primary (person)
- Foley — primary (person)
- Healey — primary (person)
- Stein — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-07** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-07** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 459 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5dfd9a79-4c7d-45b9-9bdd-e2d038d20ac8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).