---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Transit Administration - Purple Line - Free Ridership and Promotional Materials and Services"
description: "Maryland Transit Administration - Purple Line - Free Ridership and Promotional Materials and Services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 527"
citation: "Maryland HB 527 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charkoudian", "Healey", "J. Long", "Kaufman", "Korman", "Lehman", "Moon", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Shetty", "Solomon", "Taveras", "Wilkins", "Wolek"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0d29b91-dc72-41fa-9482-231a91fe5943"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0527?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "4f119c315763dc4f9ead832bbf95042e2f0e064cecbff8e9b1c9a52c40aad731"
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 527 (2025) — Maryland Transit Administration - Purple Line - Free Ridership and Promotional Materials and Services

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Transit Administration - Purple Line - Free Ridership and Promotional Materials and Services** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_494_hb0527t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Transit Administration - Purple Line - Free Ridership and Advertising** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0527f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Transit Administration - Purple Line - Free Ridership and Promotional Materials and Services** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0527t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **35–12** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **103–36** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Healey — primary (person)
- J. Long — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Korman — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Moon — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Solomon — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Wilkins — primary (person)
- Wolek — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22** First Reading Environment and Transportation and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-24** Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations)
- **2025-01-28** Hearing canceled (Appropriations)
- **2025-01-29** Hearing 2/14 at 1:30 p.m. (Environment and Transportation) and Hearing canceled (Appropriations)
- **2025-02-14** Hearing canceled (Environment and Transportation) and Hearing canceled (Appropriations)
- **2025-02-14** Hearing 2/14 at 1:30 p.m. (Environment and Transportation) and Hearing canceled (Appropriations)
- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 494 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e0d29b91-dc72-41fa-9482-231a91fe5943`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).