| MD | SB271 | Pass | Altering the information that clerks of the circuit court for each county and administrative clerks for each District Court are required to report to the State Administrator of Elections to include the names and addresses, if available, of individual...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 430 |
| MD | SB417 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Elections to evaluate the performance of the State Administrator of Elections; requiring the State Administrator to provide a performance evaluation of the election director of each local board of elections to the local b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 579 |
| MD | SB291 | Pass | Requiring a person to file a registration statement with the State Board of Elections within a certain time period after the award of a contract that causes the person to be doing public business; requiring persons doing public business to update inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 23 |
| MD | SB480 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully making a threat to harm an election official or an immediate family member of an election official because of the election official's role in administering the election process; and establishing that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 20 |
| MD | SB16 | Engross
Sine Die | Applying certain campaign finance requirements for a political committee to draft committees and exploratory committees; establishing requirements and prohibitions for draft and exploratory committees relating to the establishment of the committees, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB23 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that candidates for judge of the orphans' court appear on the ballot without party designation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB29 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that a special election be held at the same time as the regular statewide primary and general elections that are held in the second year of a term to fill a vacancy in the office of Delegate or Senator in the General Assembly if the vacancy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB115 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a petitioner for a recount to select the method for conducting the recount; limiting the methods from which the selection must be made; requiring a local board of elections to preserve and store certain voter-verifiable paper records in a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB978 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring certain persons that publish, distribute, or disseminate or cause to be published, distributed, or disseminated synthetic media to publish on their website the original content that was manipulated to generate the synthetic media; and requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB458 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain political organizations from making expenditures or disbursements to an entity owned or controlled by certain individuals; prohibiting certain political organizations from employing certain individuals or allowing certain individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB494 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the records and documents that a board of canvassers is required to investigate under certain circumstances; altering the responsibilities of the State Administrator, the State Board of Elections, and the Board of State Canvassers regarding ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB495 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that a certain statement included on the signature page of a petition seeking to place a question on the ballot and a certain statement about the purpose of a question on the ballot be written in plain language reasonably calculated to be u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB557 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting an individual assisting a voter in marking or preparing a ballot at a polling place from assisting more than three unrelated voters during an election, unless the individual is an election judge, or from receiving compensation for assisti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB99 | 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 provisional ballot for the voter's preferred political party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Motion Recommit to Committee (Senator Kagan) Adopted |
| MD | SB129 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that each member of the State Board of Elections receive a stipend as provided in the State budget; requiring the State Administrator of Elections or the procurement officer for the State Board to disclose requests for proposals, invitation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB493 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that, in the 2028 statewide primary election, each contest for the nomination by a political party of a candidate for the office of President of the United States be conducted using ranked-choice voting; and requiring the State Board of Ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1052 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each local board of elections to maintain certain records, including all election data, absentee ballot requests, and voter registration lists, for at least 10 years and organized by election year; requiring an election director or represen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1029 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB772 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB1130 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of Howard County to establish a system of public campaign financing for members of the county board of education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB1129 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Howard County Council to adopt a ranked-choice voting method for elections for the Howard County Board of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB605 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering automatic voter registration procedures at the Motor Vehicle Administration and the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange; establishing requirements regarding the transmission of automatic voter registration information by the Administration and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB660 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting local governments from denying or impairing the right of a protected class member to vote; establishing requirements on the State Board of Elections and local governments related to the provision of language-related assistance in local go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB709 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections to submit a report on the costs and resources required to process Internet-delivered absentee ballots during elections in the State to the Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee and the House Wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB824 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB812 | 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 being a candidate for, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB802 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections to establish a process by which an individual with disabilities may return a marked absentee ballot to a local board of elections electronically.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB913 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB364 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from willfully or knowingly casting a ballot in a general election in more than one state in the same year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB523 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB515 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering, from 16 years old to 15 years and 9 months old, the age at which an individual may register to vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB140 | Intro
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] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
