| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| MD | SB337 | 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] | 2025-01-30 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB361 | Intro 25% | Prohibiting a person from using fraud to influence or attempt to influence a voter's voting decision; and providing that fraud includes the use of synthetic media. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB366 | Intro 25% | Requiring the State Board of Elections to issue a certain notice to persons the State Board believes are committing or have committed certain campaign finance violations; requiring the State Board to adopt comprehensive regulations establishing an ap... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB383 | Intro 25% | Authorizing the State Board of Elections, beginning with the 2028 statewide primary election, to use ranked-choice voting to conduct a contest for the nomination by a political party of a candidate for the office of President of the United States; re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB575 | Intro 25% | 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] | 2025-01-30 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB534 | 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] | 2025-01-30 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB543 | 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] | 2025-01-30 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB615 | 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] | 2025-01-30 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB645 | 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] | 2025-01-30 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB633 | 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] | 2025-01-30 [Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm] To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |