Maryland House Bill 642 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: Introduced on February 6 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-02-08 - Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
Pending: House Ways and Means Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [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 only voter-verifiable paper records in a manual recount.

Election Law – Recounts – Procedures

Del. Brooke Grossman [D]

Del. Nick Allen [D]

Del. Kris Fair [D]

Del. Aletheia McCaskill [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-08	House	Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
2023-02-06	House	First Reading Ways and Means

HB642 (Carry Over) 2023-02-08 - Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
SB339 (Crossfiled) 2023-03-06 - Hearing 3/21 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/HB0642?ys=2023RS
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0642f.pdf