republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2025/hb-731.md

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Bill	Wildlife - Protections and Highway Crossings	Wildlife - Protections and Highway Crossings	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2025	HB 731	Maryland HB 731 (2025)	bill		enacted	Addison Allen Behler Foley Guyton Healey Hill Lehman Palakovich Carr Ruth Stein Terrasa Valderrama Woods	3	13	2	2025-01-27	2025-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/71ee3521-c954-4e96-9cd6-f586de010935	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0731?ys=2025RS&search=True	d282dd5de22c158e8e041ebaee63e0c5b83061e8a41d3df6525339b43dcdf2d9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 731 (2025) — Wildlife - Protections and Highway Crossings

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Wildlife - Protections and Highway Crossings (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Wildlife - Protections and Highway Crossings (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Wildlife - Protections and Highway Crossings (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 34–13 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 101–36 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Addison — primary (person)
• Allen — primary (person)
• Behler — primary (person)
• Foley — primary (person)
• Guyton — primary (person)
• Healey — primary (person)
• Hill — primary (person)
• Lehman — primary (person)
• Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
• Ruth — primary (person)
• Stein — primary (person)
• Terrasa — primary (person)
• Valderrama — primary (person)
• Woods — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-27 First Reading Environment and Transportation referral-committee
• 2025-01-29 Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2025-03-15 Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-15 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-15 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2025-03-17 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-03-17 Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment referral-committee
• 2025-03-28 Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-28 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-28 Second Reading Passed
• 2025-04-02 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-04-02 Returned Passed
• 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 549 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/71ee3521-c954-4e96-9cd6-f586de010935. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).