---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicle Laws - Exceptional Hauling Permits for Farm Products"
description: "Vehicle Laws - Exceptional Hauling Permits for Farm Products"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 225"
citation: "Maryland HB 225 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-10-09"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/476b7984-bb5d-4742-b160-fa7917559796"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0225?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "6b3cccf3384e8c1397168e1abc92d8be80168f123c75a94f12350abc7378c8af"
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 225 (2025) — Vehicle Laws - Exceptional Hauling Permits for Farm Products

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Vehicle Laws - Exceptional Hauling Permits for Farm Products** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_51_hb0225t.pdf)
2. **First - Vehicle Laws - Exceptional Hauling Permits for Farm Products** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0225f.pdf)
3. **Third - Vehicle Laws - Exceptional Hauling Permits for Farm Products** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0225t.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Chair, Environment and Transportation Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-09** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-12** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 51 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/476b7984-bb5d-4742-b160-fa7917559796`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).