Maryland House Bill 412

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 16 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-18 - Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m.
Pending: House Ways and Means Committee
Hearing: Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm House Ways and Means Hearing
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requiring each local board of canvassers 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 provide live video streaming of each open meeting and to maintain a complete and unedited archived video recording of each open meeting for 5 years; requiring the State Board of Elections to adopt regulations to ensure that the streaming requirements are met in a certain manner; etc.

Elections - Local Boards of Elections and Boards of Canvassers - Open Meeting Requirements (Local Boards of Elections Transparency Act)

Del. Marc Korman [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-18	House	Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m.
2025-01-16	House	First Reading Ways and Means

SB337 (Crossfiled) 2025-01-30 - Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Election Law	11	301	(n/a)	See Bill Text
Election Law	11	302	(n/a)	See Bill Text
Election Law	11	303	(n/a)	See Bill Text
Election Law	2	208	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB0412?ys=2025RS
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0412f.pdf