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Bill	Vehicle Laws - Obscured, Modified, or Blocked Registration Plates and Registration Plate Covers	Vehicle Laws - Obscured, Modified, or Blocked Registration Plates and Registration Plate Covers	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2025	HB 470	Maryland HB 470 (2025)	bill		enacted	Addison Behler Boyce Foley Guyton Holmes R. Lewis Stein Stewart T. Morgan Terrasa Ziegler	3	14	2	2025-01-20	2025-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/a9be7da2-002e-4006-8202-b66c7d0e488e	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0470?ys=2025RS&search=True	7e647eedf5e0664518dfa0a77a0528350d3207c51448d3a3aa2ba47814a66877	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 470 (2025) — Vehicle Laws - Obscured, Modified, or Blocked Registration Plates and Registration Plate Covers

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Vehicle Laws - Obscured, Modified, or Blocked Registration Plates and Registration Plate Covers (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Vehicle Laws - Obscured or Modified Registration Plates (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Vehicle Laws - Obscured, Modified, or Blocked Registration Plates and Registration Plate Covers (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 136–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 44–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Addison — primary (person)
• Behler — primary (person)
• Boyce — primary (person)
• Foley — primary (person)
• Guyton — primary (person)
• Holmes — primary (person)
• R. Lewis — primary (person)
• Stein — primary (person)
• Stewart — primary (person)
• T. Morgan — primary (person)
• Terrasa — primary (person)
• Ziegler — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-20 First Reading Environment and Transportation referral-committee
• 2025-01-22 Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2025-03-14 Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-14 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-14 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2025-03-17 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-03-17 Referred Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
• 2025-03-19 Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 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
• 2025-04-04 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-04-05 Returned Passed
• 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 566 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a9be7da2-002e-4006-8202-b66c7d0e488e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).