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Bill	Vehicle Registration – Exemption From Registration Fees – Surviving Spouses of Veterans	Vehicle Registration – Exemption From Registration Fees – Surviving Spouses of Veterans	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2018	SB 626	Maryland SB 626 (2018)	bill	Vehicle Laws - Licensing and Registration Death Disabilities Exemptions Fees Motor Vehicles Motor Vehicle Registration Spouses Veterans	enacted	Smith	1	13	2	2017-12-08	2018-04-24	openstates	ocd-bill/e84d78de-dd03-4e05-8d34-49be209c5831	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB626&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs	71d3c39c47cf1017c6e00f4663cc3686c2548afeaee29be56835c33b4603ebf6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 626 (2018) — Vehicle Registration – Exemption From Registration Fees – Surviving Spouses of Veterans

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 140–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 46–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Smith — primary (person)
• Astle — cosponsor (person)
• Benson — cosponsor (person)
• Brochin — cosponsor (person)
• Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
• Currie — cosponsor (person)
• DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
• Edwards — cosponsor (person)
• Feldman — cosponsor (person)
• Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
• Hough — cosponsor (person)
• Kelley — cosponsor (person)
• King — cosponsor (person)
• Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
• Lee — cosponsor (person)
• Manno — cosponsor (person)
• Mathias — cosponsor (person)
• Muse — cosponsor (person)
• Norman — cosponsor (person)
• Oaks — cosponsor (person)
• Peters — cosponsor (person)
• Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
• Ready — cosponsor (person)
• Salling — cosponsor (person)
• Serafini — cosponsor (person)
• Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
• Waugh — cosponsor (person)
• Young — cosponsor (person)
• Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
• Zucker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-01 First Reading Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
• 2018-02-07 Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-03-09 Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-12 Favorable with Amendments {798372/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-12 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2018-03-14 Third Reading Passed (46-0) passage
• 2018-03-14 First Reading Environment and Transportation referral-committee
• 2018-04-05 Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-04-05 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-04-05 Second Reading Passed
• 2018-04-09 Third Reading Passed (140-0) passage
• 2017-12-08 Returned Passed
• 2018-04-24 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 158 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e84d78de-dd03-4e05-8d34-49be209c5831. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).