---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transportation Equality for Service Members Act"
description: "Transportation Equality for Service Members Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 475"
citation: "Maryland HB 475 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen", "Guyton", "Healey", "R. Lewis", "Ruth", "Stein", "T. Morgan"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57d1efa0-597d-4ef9-a301-89ea55fe7de7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0475?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ed3e364d686056345a06660b2e75dc1bdc839ce89607e8edb85c0ecbc70e590c"
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 475 (2025) — Transportation Equality for Service Members Act

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Transportation Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_263_hb0475t.pdf)
2. **First - Transportation Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0475f.pdf)
3. **Third - Transportation Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0475t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- Guyton — primary (person)
- Healey — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- Stein — primary (person)
- T. Morgan — 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 Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 263 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/57d1efa0-597d-4ef9-a301-89ea55fe7de7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).