---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicle Laws - Overtaking and Passing Bicycles"
description: "Vehicle Laws - Overtaking and Passing Bicycles"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 230"
citation: "Maryland HB 230 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Attar", "Boyce", "Bridges", "Conaway", "Fraser-Hidalgo", "Lehman", "Lierman", "Love", "Mosby", "R. Lewis", "Ruth", "Solomon", "Stewart", "Terrasa", "Wells"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-16"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55d3b960-253d-49fb-a76f-e42f21bfd122"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0230?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "6f70c4b8f8bef762712ebf9b29a90ff658c726f95029d4f2b8bbf7722ac452a1"
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 230 (2020) — Vehicle Laws - Overtaking and Passing Bicycles

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Vehicle Laws - Overtaking and Passing Bicycles** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_114_hb0230t.pdf)
2. **First - Vehicle Laws - Overtaking and Passing Bicycles** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0230f.pdf)
3. **Third - Vehicle Laws - Overtaking and Passing Bicycles** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0230t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **35–11** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Attar — primary (person)
- Boyce — primary (person)
- Bridges — primary (person)
- Conaway — primary (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Lierman — primary (person)
- Love — primary (person)
- Mosby — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- Solomon — primary (person)
- Stewart — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- Wells — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-16** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-21** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-09** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-12** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-14** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-15** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-15** Second Reading Passed
- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-17** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 114 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55d3b960-253d-49fb-a76f-e42f21bfd122`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).