HB0381 • 2026

State Highway Administration - Urban Core and Urban Center Traffic Control Devices - No Turn on Red

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Delegates Lehman , Charkoudian , Healey , Taveras , and Terrasa
Last action: 2026-03-02
Official status: In the House - Withdrawn by Sponsor
Effective date: 2026-10-01

Plain English Breakdown

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State Highway Administration - Urban Core and Urban Center Traffic Control Devices - No Turn on Red

Requiring the State Highway Administration, by July 1, 2029, to install traffic control devices prohibiting a vehicle from making a right turn while facing a steady red signal at certain intersections on State highways in urban cores and urban centers; and authorizing the Administration to choose not to install a certain traffic control device at a specific intersection if the Administration determines that the installation would significantly impair public safety.

What This Bill Does

Requiring the State Highway Administration, by July 1, 2029, to install traffic control devices prohibiting a vehicle from making a right turn while facing a steady red signal at certain intersections on State highways in urban cores and urban centers; and authorizing the Administration to choose not to install a certain traffic control device at a specific intersection if the Administration determines that the installation would significantly impair public safety.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2026-03-02 House
Withdrawn by Sponsor
2026-01-22 House
Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
2026-01-21 House
First Reading Environment and Transportation
Maryland General Assembly
Text - First - State Highway Administration - Urban Core and Urban Center Traffic Control Devices - No Turn on Red
Maryland General Assembly
Vote - House - Committee - Environment and Transportation

Official Summary Text

Requiring the State Highway Administration, by July 1, 2029, to install traffic control devices prohibiting a vehicle from making a right turn while facing a steady red signal at certain intersections on State highways in urban cores and urban centers; and authorizing the Administration to choose not to install a certain traffic control device at a specific intersection if the Administration determines that the installation would significantly impair public safety.

Current Bill Text

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EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MATTER ADDED TO EXISTING LAW.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.
*hb0381*

HOUSE BILL 381
R1 6lr2070

By: Delegates Lehman, Charkoudian, Healey, Taveras, and Terrasa
Introduced and read first time: January 21, 2026
Assigned to: Environment and Transportation

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ACT concerning 1

State Highway Administration – Urban Core and Urban Center Traffic Control 2
Devices – No Turn on Red 3

FOR the purpose of requiring the State Highway Administration to install traffic control 4
devices prohibiting right turns on a steady red signal at certain intersections on 5
State highways in urban cores and urban centers ; and generally relating to traffic 6
control devices in urban cores and urban centers. 7

BY adding to 8
Article – Transportation 9
Section 8–204.3 10
Annotated Code of Maryland 11
(2020 Replacement Volume and 2025 Supplement) 12

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments, 13
Article – Transportation 14
Section 11–167 and 11–168 15
Annotated Code of Maryland 16
(2020 Replacement Volume and 2025 Supplement) 17

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 18
Article – Transportation 19
Section 21–202(i) 20
Annotated Code of Maryland 21
(2020 Replacement Volume and 2025 Supplement) 22

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 23
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 24

Article – Transportation 25

2 HOUSE BILL 381

8–204.3. 1

(A) EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION (B) OF THIS SECTION , ON OR 2
BEFORE JULY 1, 2029, THE ADMINISTRATION SHALL INSTALL A TRAFFIC CONTROL 3
DEVICE PROHIBITING A VEHICLE FROM MAKING A RIGHT TURN WHILE FAC ING A 4
STEADY RED SIGNAL AT EACH INTERSECTION ON A STATE HIGHWAY IN AN U RBAN 5
CORE OR URBAN CENTER , AS DESCRIBED IN THE ADMINISTRATION’S CONTEXT 6
DRIVEN GUIDE, AT WHICH A TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL IS IN USE. 7

(B) THE ADMINISTRATION MAY CH OOSE NOT TO INSTALL A TRAFFIC 8
CONTROL DEVICE UNDER SUBSECTION (A) OF THIS SECTION AT A SPECIFIC 9
INTERSECTION IF THE ADMINISTRATION DETERM INES THAT THE INSTAL LATION 10
WOULD SIGNIFICANTLY IMPAIR PUBLIC SAFETY. 11

11–167. 12

“Traffic control device” means any sign, signal, marking, or device that: 13

(1) Is not inconsistent with the Maryland Vehicle Law; and 14

(2) Is placed by authority of an authorized public body or official to 15
regulate, warn, or guide traffic. 16

11–168. 17

“Traffic contro l signal” means any traffic control device, whether manually, 18
electrically, or mechanically operated, by which traffic alternately is directed to stop and 19
permitted to proceed. 20

21–202. 21

(i) Unless a [sign] TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE prohibiting a turn is in place, 22
vehicular traffic facing a steady red signal, after stopping as required by subsection (h) of 23
this section, cautiously may enter the intersection and make: 24

(1) A right turn; or 25

(2) A left turn from a one–way street onto a one–way street. 26

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 27
October 1, 2026. 28