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type: "Bill"
title: "Wildlife - Protections and Highway Crossings"
description: "Wildlife - Protections and Highway Crossings"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 731"
citation: "Maryland HB 731 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Addison", "Allen", "Behler", "Foley", "Guyton", "Healey", "Hill", "Lehman", "Palakovich Carr", "Ruth", "Stein", "Terrasa", "Valderrama", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-27"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71ee3521-c954-4e96-9cd6-f586de010935"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0731?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "d282dd5de22c158e8e041ebaee63e0c5b83061e8a41d3df6525339b43dcdf2d9"
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 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](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_549_hb0731t.pdf)
2. **First - Wildlife - Protections and Highway Crossings** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0731f.pdf)
3. **Third - Wildlife - Protections and Highway Crossings** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0731t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **3413** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **10136** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71ee3521-c954-4e96-9cd6-f586de010935`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).