| MD | HB357 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Elections and each municipality that has a website to display certain information relating to municipal elections on their websites; and requiring each municipality to include the date of the next regular municipal electi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 471 |
| MD | HB1001 | Pass | Requiring a police officer who is on duty at a polling place to obey the authority of the State Administrator, the Deputy State Administrator, or a local election director; providing that, in a polling place, certain individuals have the authority to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 467 |
| MD | SB670 | Pass | Requiring a police officer who is on duty at a polling place to obey the authority of the State Administrator, the Deputy State Administrator, or a local election director; providing that in a polling place certain individuals have the authority to k...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 468 |
| MD | SB443 | Pass | Altering the qualifications for counsel to local boards of elections to require that counsel be a registered voter of the State instead of the applicable county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 257 |
| MD | HB621 | Pass | Altering the qualifications for counsel to local boards of elections to require that counsel be a registered voter of the State instead of the applicable county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 256 |
| MD | HB1083 | Engross
50% | Altering the membership of the Montgomery County Board of Elections to consist of seven regular members and to no longer include substitute members; altering the number of members on the county board required to be members of the majority party and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-08
Third Reading Passed (42-0) |
| MD | HB156 | Engross
50% | Authorizing unaffiliated voters to request to affiliate with a political party at an early voting center before a primary election or at a precinct polling place on a primary election day and vote a provisional ballot for the voter's preferred politi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-12
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1003 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Anne Arundel County Board of Education and the State Board of Elections, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to establish a pilot program in the county schools to prepare students for a career as an election official...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB408 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Anne Arundel County Board of Education and the State Board of Elections, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to establish a career and technical education pilot program in the county schools to prepare students for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-02
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB845 | Intro
25% | Requiring an election director of a local board of elections to immediately remove a registered voter from the statewide voter registration list when the local board receives a certain report that the registered voter is deceased; requiring the elect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB964 | Intro
25% | Repealing the requirements that the Baltimore City centralized booking facility provide a ballot drop box to eligible voters; repealing the requirement that each local board of elections designate locations in the county at which ballot drop boxes wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-11
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | SB567 | Intro
25% | Requiring an election judge to establish a voter's identity by requiring the voter to present a valid government-issued photo identification or a valid non-government-issued photo identification, and a current bill, statement, or check that states th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB132 | Intro
25% | Authorizing unaffiliated voters to request to affiliate with a political party at an early voting center during a primary election and vote a provisional ballot for the voter's preferred political party; and requiring an election judge to determine w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB73 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Elections, as part of the training program for election judges, to include instruction on best practices for assisting elderly voters and voters with disabilities; requiring the Board to establish guidelines for the local...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB219 | Intro
25% | Altering public notice requirements of the State Board of Elections, local boards of elections, and certain municipal corporations with respect to changes in administrative policy affecting voting rights; prohibiting acts of intimidation, deception, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-06
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | HB462 | Intro
25% | Requiring an election judge to establish a voter's identity by requiring the voter to present a valid government-issued photo identification or a valid non-government-issued photo identification, and a current bill, statement, or check that states th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-06
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | HB499 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Elections to adopt regulations for the secure storage and use of voter data from the list of registered voters and specifying procedures and requirements relating to electronic signatures; establishing and altering certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-06
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | HB830 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a local board of elections from removing an absentee ballot from a return envelope or ballot/return envelope or counting the ballot unless the return envelope or ballot/return envelope is signed by the voter and a witness and the local bo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | HB662 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a public school student in the State both to earn hours toward the service-learning graduation requirement and to receive election judge compensation for service as an election judge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-03
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | HB641 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Curbside Voting Pilot Program to test the viability of curbside voting in the State; establishing requirements governing curbside voting; and requiring the State Board to report to the General Assembly on the implementation of the Pi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-03
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
| MD | HB581 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the Baltimore County Board of Elections from removing an absentee ballot from a return envelope or ballot/return envelope or counting the ballot unless the return envelope or ballot/return envelope is signed by the voter and, except under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-28
To House Government, Labor, and Elections Committee |
