| MD | SB27 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | SB257 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-24
Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | SB259 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-24
Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | SB153 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment |
| MD | HB322 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB412 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB586 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-24
Favorable Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | HB733 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB272 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB88 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB262 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-20
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB41 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB236 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB153 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB199 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1014 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB996 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the governing body of a county to adopt, by law, an approval voting method for elections for offices in the executive or legislative branches of county government; defining "approval voting" as a method of casting and tabulating votes in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1110 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to transmit a list that includes the name and new residential address of individuals released from incarceration at a State correctional facility to the State Board of Elections on a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1042 | Intro
25% | Requiring that certain information regarding the use of an agent to pick up and deliver absentee ballots be conspicuously displayed on each specimen ballot; and prohibiting a candidate's representative from being a duly authorized agent for the purpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1094 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Montgomery County Council to adopt, by law, a ranked-choice voting method or an approval voting method for elections for certain local offices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1113 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to implement an enhanced automatic voter registration system on or before July 1, 2026; establishing requirements regarding the transmission of enhanced automatic voter registration information by the Admini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1043 | 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 local governments from taking any...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1044 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Attorney General or the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County to review and grant preclearance to certain policies before enactment or implementation; authorizing certain persons to file an action if the Attorney General or the Circuit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 11:00 am]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB991 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Elections or the local boards of elections to automatically send an absentee ballot to each registered voter in pretrial detention in a correctional facility without the voter having to submit an absentee ballot applicati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB115 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a voter to establish the voter's identity at the request of an election judge at a polling place by presenting the voter's registration card, a valid Maryland driver's license, or any identification card that contains a photograph of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB67 | 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, except under certain circ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB91 | 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 nongovernment-issued photo identification, and a current bill, statement, or check that states the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB285 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Elections or a local board of elections, on request of a candidate, to provide the candidate with a list of registered voters who have requested an absentee ballot for an upcoming election; and requiring that the list of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB816 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB647 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Elections to provide a certain voter hotline for incarcerated individuals; and altering the circumstances under which an individual is not qualified to be a registered voter for the purpose of allowing individuals convict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB781 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Elections to establish guidelines for the local boards of election to implement a process to accommodate and expedite voting for elderly voters and voters with disabilities at each early voting center and polling place; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB839 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB890 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a voter to change the voter's political party affiliation at an early voting center or precinct polling place during a primary election and vote the ballot for the voter's new political party affiliation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB685 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Elections to determine whether there is a significant and substantial need for language-related assistance in certain languages by a local board of elections during an election, based on certain criteria; requiring local ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB906 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain political organizations to include certain disclaimers and statements 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] | 2025-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB945 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB983 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Elections to determine whether there is a significant and substantial need for language-related assistance in certain languages by a local board of elections during an election based on certain criteria; requiring local b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB838 | 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, except under certain circ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB267 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB18 | Intro
25% | Changing the number of days on which early voting centers are required to be open before a primary or general election by requiring early voting centers to be open through the second Monday, rather than the Thursday, before the election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB171 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB66 | Intro
25% | Requiring the State Board of Elections to establish guidelines for the local boards of election to implement a process to accommodate and expedite voting for elderly voters and voters with disabilities at each early voting center and polling place; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB93 | Intro
25% | Requiring each local board of elections to send the absentee ballot application approved by the State Board of Elections to each eligible voter at least 60 days before each statewide primary election, unless the voter has permanent absentee ballot st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB784 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB313 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB308 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB323 | Intro
25% | Requiring that a statewide voter registration application include a return envelope or envelope template with prepaid postage that an applicant may use to return the application to the State Board of Elections; requiring a statewide voter registratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB342 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the imposition or application of a method for electing the governing body of a county or municipality that impairs the ability of members of a protected class to elect candidates of the members' choice or influence the outcome of an elect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB352 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
