| MD | HB500 | Pass | Authorizing the Secretary of General Services to delegate certain powers and duties to the Chief Procurement Officer; altering the authority of the Department of General Services to engage in or control procurement of certain equipment and services; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 601 |
| MD | SB267 | Pass | Altering the time periods during which a petition for the formation of a new political party or additional signatures to a petition may not be filed; and prohibiting signatures submitted with a petition that was officially determined as not meeting c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 283 |
| MD | HB41 | Pass | Altering the time periods during which a petition for the formation of a new political party or additional signatures to a petition may not be filed; and prohibiting signatures submitted with a petition that was officially determined as not meeting c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 282 |
| MD | SB257 | Pass | Altering the time before an election when a certain notice is required to be sent to each voter who is on the permanent absentee ballot list; repealing a requirement that the notice be sent to each voter who is on the permanent absentee ballot list a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 279 |
| MD | SB259 | Pass | Requiring a local board of elections to submit an election plan to the State Board of Elections for approval at least 7 months before each statewide primary election; establishing requirements related to an election plan; and altering the requirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 281 |
| MD | SB93 | Pass | Requiring the local board of elections to send a written notice regarding a request for a State-approved absentee ballot application with a specimen ballot and any other mailings to voters and eligible voters to further awareness of the option of mai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 310 |
| MD | HB199 | Pass | Altering the time before an election when a certain notice is required to be sent to each voter who is on the permanent absentee ballot list; repealing a requirement that the notice be sent to each voter who is on the permanent absentee ballot list a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 280 |
| MD | SB275 | Pass | Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; requiring the Secretary of Veterans and Military Families to develop certain policies related to life transitions of veterans, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 253 |
| MD | SB313 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Elections, in collaboration with the local boards of elections, to conduct a risk-limiting audit after each statewide election; authorizing the State Board, in collaboration with the local boards, to conduct a risk-limiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 320 |
| MD | SB308 | Pass | Requiring the election director of a local board of elections to designate chief election judges from certain political parties to each polling place except under certain circumstances; and requiring an election director who is unable to designate ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 276 |
| MD | HB448 | Pass | Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; requiring the Secretary of Veterans and Military Families to develop certain policies related to life transitions of veterans, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 254 |
| MD | SB352 | Pass | Altering from four to three the number of members elected from each councilmanic district of Baltimore County to the Baltimore County Republican Party Central Committee; and altering the number of members elected from each legislative district of Bal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 414 |
| MD | HB412 | Pass | Requiring each local board of elections to make available on its website each open meeting agenda, a summary of any finalized documents, certain written testimony, and other materials on which the board will be voting; requiring each local board to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 303 |
| MD | SB337 | Pass | Requiring each local board of elections to make available on its website each open meeting agenda, a summary of any finalized documents, certain written testimony, and other materials on which the board will be voting; requiring each local board to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 304 |
| MD | HB426 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Elections, in collaboration with the local boards of elections, to conduct a risk-limiting audit after each statewide election; authorizing the State Board, in collaboration with the local boards, to conduct a risk-limiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 321 |
| MD | HB586 | Pass | Requiring a local board of elections to pay an election judge compensation for completing a certain course of instruction only after the election judge actually serves an election day or early voting day; and authorizing a public school student in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 390 |
| MD | HB562 | Pass | Altering from four to three the number of members elected from each councilmanic district of Baltimore County to the Baltimore County Republican Party Central Committee; and altering the number of members elected from each legislative district of Bal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 413 |
| MD | HB839 | Pass | Providing that a voter is qualified to vote a provisional ballot if the provisional ballot was cast because the voter claimed a different political party affiliation from the political party affiliation on record for the voter and the voter made a se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 391 |
| MD | SB645 | Pass | Altering, from the last Tuesday in June to the fourth Tuesday in June, the date for the primary election in the year of the gubernatorial election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 311 |
| MD | SB633 | Pass | Requiring certain political organizations to include certain disclaimers and disclosures on certain solicitations; authorizing the State Administrator of Elections to investigate a potential violation of the Act; and authorizing the State Board after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 313 |
| MD | SB685 | Pass | Establishing the Language Assistance Program; requiring a local board of elections to participate in the Program if the State Board determines that there is a significant need for language assistance to voters in the county in a language other than E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 277 |
| MD | HB945 | Pass | Altering, from the last Tuesday in June to the fourth Tuesday in June, the date for the primary election in the year of the gubernatorial election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 312 |
| MD | HB983 | Pass | Establishing the Language Assistance Program; requiring a local board of elections to participate in the Program if the State Board determines that there is a significant need for language assistance to voters in the county in a language other than E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 278 |
| MD | HB75 | Pass | Altering requirements for scheduling special elections to fill vacancies in a county council or in the office of chief executive officer or county executive; requiring the State Administrator to conduct a special election in accordance with State law...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 126 |
| MD | SB262 | Pass | Altering requirements for scheduling special elections to fill vacancies in a county council or in the office of chief executive officer or county executive; requiring the State Administrator to conduct a special election in accordance with State law...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 125 |
| MD | HB322 | Pass | Authorizing the State Administrator of Elections to enter into memoranda of understanding with municipal corporations that allow the State Administrator to work collaboratively with a municipal corporation to support the administration of the municip...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 124 |
| MD | SB784 | Pass | Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that the Act is not intended to affect any l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-22
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 142 |
| MD | HB272 | Pass | Requiring the State Administrator of Elections to electronically submit certain precinct boundary information to the Secretary of Planning; altering certain requirements related to the Department of Planning preparing population projections for the W...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 61 |
| MD | SB236 | Pass | Requiring the State Administrator of Elections to immediately send electronically the description and map related to a new or changed precinct boundary to the Secretary of Planning; altering a requirement that the Department of the Environment submit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 62 |
| MD | SB361 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from using fraud to influence or attempt to influence a voter's voting decision; and providing that fraud includes the use of synthetic media.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Third Reading Passed (39-8) |
| MD | HB906 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring certain political organizations to include certain disclaimers and disclosures on certain solicitations; authorizing the State Administrator of Elections to investigate a potential violation of the Act; and authorizing the State Board after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Motion Special Order until Next Session (Senator King) Adopted |
| MD | HB201 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring each local board of elections to include a written notice regarding how to request a State-approved absentee ballot application approved by the State Board of Elections with certain mailings to voters and eligible voters to further awarene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB525 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from, with fraudulent intent, influencing or attempting to influence a voter's decision whether or not to cast a vote or how to vote on a candidate or ballot issue by disseminating a deepfake; and defining "deepfake" as an image,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB153 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering, from 16 years old to 15 years and 9 months old, the age at which an individual may register to vote; requiring that a voter notification card sent to an individual under the age of 18 years include information regarding when the individual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1047 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the entities with respect to which certain officials or persons acting on behalf of certain officials are prohibited from taking certain actions related to fundraising during a regular session of the General Assembly; and prohibiting certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1558 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the entities with respect to which certain officials or persons acting on behalf of certain officials are prohibited from taking certain actions related to fundraising during a regular session of the General Assembly; and prohibiting certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB342 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting the imposition or application of a method for electing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation that impairs the ability of members of a protected class to elect candidates of the members' choice or influence the outcome of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB534 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a local board of elections to pay an election judge compensation for completing a certain course of instruction only after the election judge actually serves an election day or early voting day; and authorizing a public school student in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB543 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that a voter is qualified to vote a provisional ballot if the provisional ballot was cast because the voter claimed a different political party affiliation from the political party affiliation on record for the voter and the voter made a se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB615 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the information that is required to be included on the signature page of a petition seeking to place a question on the ballot and with a question on the ballot; requiring that a certain summary included on the signature page of a petition se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB153 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering certain provisions of law to reflect the renaming of the Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee to be the Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee; altering certain provisions of law to reflect the renam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB317 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Curbside Voting Pilot Program to test the viability of curbside voting in the State; establishing requirements governing curbside voting; requiring the State Board and local board to communicate with voters and the general public, in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB781 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections to establish guidelines for the local boards of election to implement a process to expedite voting for elderly voters and voters with disabilities at each early voting center and polling place; requiring the loc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB237 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing requirements for the filling of a vacancy in the office of Senator or Delegate in the General Assembly by a central committee of a political party under the Maryland Constitution relating to applications, public notice, public meetings, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB88 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Administrator of Elections to enter into memoranda of understanding with municipalities that allow the State Administrator to work collaboratively with a municipality to support the administration of the municipality's elections...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB27 | Engross
Sine Die | Applying certain campaign finance requirements for a political committee to exploratory committees; establishing requirements and prohibitions for exploratory committees relating to the establishment of the committees, receipt of funds, and permissib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB203 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that each legislative district established for the purpose of electing members of the House of Delegates consist of three single-member delegate districts; requiring the General Assembly to enact a law establishing and governing a Legislati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB733 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a candidate for election to a county board of education to disclose the candidate's party designation or party affiliation on the candidate's certificate of candidacy; prohibiting a local board of elections from disqualifying a candidate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB1014 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the application of provisions of law that prohibit an individual from simultaneously being a candidate for more than one public office or office of a political party; and prohibiting individuals from simultaneously holding a party office and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1280 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing unaffiliated voters to request to affiliate with a political party at an early voting center during a primary election and vote a ballot for the voter's preferred political party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
