---
type: "Bill"
title: "Queen Anne's County - Municipalities - Speed Limits"
description: "Queen Anne's County - Municipalities - Speed Limits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1236"
citation: "Maryland HB 1236 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arentz", "Ghrist", "Jacobs"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-07"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2011626c-65d9-4be3-8d49-2406e1351089"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1236?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "a639af85052c78f67ae83f16544b9c52c1ac8f26576e0cc002beb3e623c36239"
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 1236 (2025) — Queen Anne's County - Municipalities - Speed Limits

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Queen Anne's County - Municipalities - Speed Limits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_557_hb1236t.pdf)
2. **First - Queen Anne's County - Municipalities - Speed Limits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1236f.pdf)
3. **Third - Queen Anne's County - Municipalities - Speed Limits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1236t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Arentz — primary (person)
- Ghrist — primary (person)
- Jacobs — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-07** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** Hearing 3/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-15** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-25** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-25** Hearing 3/25 at 2:00 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
- **2025-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 557 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2011626c-65d9-4be3-8d49-2406e1351089`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).