---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Nuisance - Common Carriers - Damage to Public Infrastructure"
description: "Public Nuisance - Common Carriers - Damage to Public Infrastructure"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 860"
citation: "Maryland HB 860 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buckel", "Cardin", "Conaway", "Kaufman", "Phillips", "Schmidt", "Simmons", "Stinnett"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0535da48-d59c-47c2-a926-b3a76d3d4ec1"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0860?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "4d48f94d6eb7d0502376fe6d1be4b480ca76e9637a001c61e46a915d67f2141e"
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 860 (2025) — Public Nuisance - Common Carriers - Damage to Public Infrastructure

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Public Nuisance - Common Carriers - Damage to Public Infrastructure** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_454_hb0860e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Public Nuisance - Common Carriers - Damage to Public Infrastructure** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0860e.pdf)
3. **First - Public Nuisance - Common Carriers - Damage to Public Infrastructure** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0860f.pdf)
4. **Third - Public Nuisance - Common Carriers - Damage to Public Infrastructure** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0860t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (CCR Adp) — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Buckel — primary (person)
- Cardin — primary (person)
- Conaway — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Phillips — primary (person)
- Schmidt — primary (person)
- Simmons — primary (person)
- Stinnett — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30** First Reading Judiciary and Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m. (Judiciary)
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-05** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-05** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2025-04-05** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Taylor, Tomlinson and Fraser-Hidalgo)
- **2025-04-07** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-07** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2025-04-07** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Taylor, Tomlinson and Fraser-Hidalgo)
- **2025-04-07** Senate Refuses Recede
- **2025-04-07** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Waldstreicher, Love and Folden)
- **2025-04-07** Senate Refuses Recede
- **2025-04-07** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Waldstreicher, Love and Folden)
- **2025-04-07** Conference Committee Report {
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Conference Committee Report {
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 454 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0535da48-d59c-47c2-a926-b3a76d3d4ec1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).