2023 Regular Session • Maryland Legislature
HB304: Motor Vehicles - Noise Limits and Modification of Exhaust Systems and Noise Abatement Devices
Legislative Summary
Establishing the Sound Measuring Equipment Grant Program in the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services to provide grants to local law enforcement agencies for the purchase of equipment to measure the sound level of a motor vehicle in operation on a highway; establishing a maximum sound level limit that the Motor Vehicle Administration may set for motor vehicles; requiring the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2025, to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $2,000,000 for the Program; etc.
Bill History
1/25/2023
First Reading Environment and Transportation and Judiciary
House of Delegates
1/26/2023
Hearing 2/09 at 1:00 p.m. (Environment and Transportation)
House of Delegates
Status Information
Current Status
Introduced(1/25/2023)
Chamber
House of Delegates
Committee
Environment and Transportation(House of Delegates)
Sine DiePrior Session
Sponsors
Democrat: 16
Primary Sponsor

Mary Lehman
Democrat
Co-Sponsors (15)
Joseline Pena-Melnyk
Democrat
Ben Barnes
Democrat
Jon Cardin
Democrat
Lorig Charkoudian
Democrat
Linda Foley
Democrat
Brooke Grossman
Democrat
Michele Guyton
Democrat
Kevin Harris
Democrat
Terri Hill
Democrat
David Moon
Democrat
Julie Palakovich Carr
Democrat
Deni Taveras
Democrat
Jen Terrasa
Democrat
Karen Toles
Democrat
Jamila Woods
Democrat