Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB248 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/03/2025

                             
 
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HOUSE BILL 248 
R4   	5lr1130 
HB 716/24 – ENT 	(PRE–FILED) 	CF SB 179 
By: Delegate Griffith 
Requested: October 7, 2024 
Introduced and read first time: January 8, 2025 
Assigned to: Environment and Transportation 
 
A BILL ENTITLED 
 
AN ACT concerning 1 
 
Motor Vehicle Registration – Fee Exemption – Unemployable Disabled Veterans 2 
 
FOR the purpose of establishing that a vehicle owned by an unemployable disabled veteran 3 
is exempt from vehicle registration fees; and generally relating to vehicle registration 4 
fee exemptions. 5 
 
BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments, 6 
 Article – Transportation 7 
Section 13–903(a)(8) 8 
 Annotated Code of Maryland 9 
 (2020 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 10 
 
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 11 
 Article – Transportation 12 
Section 13–903(a)(9) and (10) 13 
 Annotated Code of Maryland 14 
 (2020 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 15 
 
BY adding to 16 
 Article – Transportation 17 
Section 13–903(a)(11) 18 
 Annotated Code of Maryland 19 
 (2020 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 20 
 
 SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 21 
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 22 
 
Article – Transportation 23 
 
13–903. 24  2 	HOUSE BILL 248  
 
 
 
 (a) The following vehicles are exempt from the registration fees specified in this 1 
subtitle: 2 
 
 (8) A vehicle owned by, or leased to, and personally used by a veteran who: 3 
 
 (i) As designated or classified by the U.S. Department of Veterans 4 
Affairs, has lost the use of a hand, arm, or leg, or is totally disabled; or 5 
 
 (ii) Has a permanent impairment of both eyes so that: 6 
 
 1. The central visual acuity is 20/200 or less in the better eye, 7 
with corrective glasses; or 8 
 
 2. There is a field defect in which the peripheral field has 9 
contracted to such an extent that the widest diameter of visual field subtends an angular 10 
distance no greater than 20 degrees in the better eye; 11 
 
 (9) A vehicle owned and personally used by an individual who is the 12 
surviving spouse of a deceased disabled veteran, as defined under § 7–208 of the  13 
Tax – Property Article; [and] 14 
 
 (10) A Type I or Type II school vehicle owned and operated by a religious 15 
organization; AND 16 
 
 (11) NOT MORE THAN ONE VEHICL E OWNED BY, OR LEASED TO , AND 17 
PERSONALLY USED BY A VETERAN WHO IS UNEMPLOYABLE DUE TO A 18 
SERVICE–CONNECTED DISABILITY . 19 
 
 SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 20 
October 1, 2025. 21