Maryland Senate Bill 339 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on March 2 2023 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-03-06 - Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
Pending: House Ways and Means Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Requiring a petitioner for a recount to select the method for conducting the recount; limiting the methods from which the selection must be made to rescanning the ballots using certain vote tabulating equipment, a manual recount of voter-verifiable paper records, or any other recount method approved by the State Administrator; and requiring a local board of elections to preserve and store certain voter-verifiable paper records in a certain manner and count duplicate ballots in a manual recount after review of the paper record.

Election Law – Recounts – Procedures

Sen. Cheryl Kagan [D]

2023-03-02 - Senate - Third Reading Passed (Y: 45 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-03-06	House	Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
2023-03-03	House	Referred Ways and Means
2023-03-02	Senate	Third Reading Passed (45-0)
2023-02-28	Senate	Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2023-02-28	Senate	Favorable with Amendments {123827/1 Adopted
2023-02-27	Senate	Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment
2023-02-02	Senate	Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
2023-01-30	Senate	First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment

SB339 (Carry Over) 2023-03-06 - Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
HB642 (Crossfiled) 2023-02-08 - Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Election Law	12	108	(n/a)	See Bill Text
Election Law	9	102	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0339?ys=2023RS
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0339f.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0339t.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/amds/bil_0009/sb0339_12382701.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/votes_comm/sb0339_eee.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/votes/Senate/0241.pdf