---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicle Laws - Obscured, Modified, or Blocked Registration Plates and Registration Plate Covers"
description: "Vehicle Laws - Obscured, Modified, or Blocked Registration Plates and Registration Plate Covers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 470"
citation: "Maryland HB 470 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Addison", "Behler", "Boyce", "Foley", "Guyton", "Holmes", "R. Lewis", "Stein", "Stewart", "T. Morgan", "Terrasa", "Ziegler"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9be7da2-002e-4006-8202-b66c7d0e488e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0470?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "7e647eedf5e0664518dfa0a77a0528350d3207c51448d3a3aa2ba47814a66877"
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 470 (2025) — Vehicle Laws - Obscured, Modified, or Blocked Registration Plates and Registration Plate Covers

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Vehicle Laws - Obscured, Modified, or Blocked Registration Plates and Registration Plate Covers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_566_hb0470t.pdf)
2. **First - Vehicle Laws - Obscured or Modified Registration Plates** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0470f.pdf)
3. **Third - Vehicle Laws - Obscured, Modified, or Blocked Registration Plates and Registration Plate Covers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0470t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Addison — primary (person)
- Behler — primary (person)
- Boyce — primary (person)
- Foley — primary (person)
- Guyton — primary (person)
- Holmes — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Stein — primary (person)
- Stewart — primary (person)
- T. Morgan — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- Ziegler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 566 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a9be7da2-002e-4006-8202-b66c7d0e488e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).