| 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 | HB112 | 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 22 |
| 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 | HB585 | 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 21 |
| MD | SB271 | Enroll
75% | 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 of individuals convicted of a felony and s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB76 | Enroll
75% | Requiring a provider to post the provider's most recent disclosure statement on the provider's website; altering the number of times providers are required to hold a meeting open to all of the provider's subscribers each year; requiring an authorize...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB371 | Enroll
75% | Requiring a petitioner for a recount to select the method for conducting the recount; limiting the methods from which the selection must be made; and requiring a local board of elections to preserve and store certain voter-verifiable paper records an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB434 | Enroll
75% | Exempting nonprofit organizations qualified under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code from the requirement for a person providing lobbyist compensation to file a statement of political contributions with the State Board of Elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB417 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB459 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-04-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB166 | Enroll
75% | Establishing the Waterway Incident Notification System (WINS) Workgroup to study issues and factors regarding the feasibility of establishing a Waterway Incident Notification System to notify members of the public of certain active waterway emergenci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB333 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the State Board of Elections to maintain a portal on the State Board's website that the public may use to report election misinformation and election disinformation; requiring the State Board to conduct a periodic review of material submitt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB700 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the State Board to develop a marketing campaign for use by local boards to recruit individuals to serve as election judges; requiring that a county employee who serves as an election judge during hours that the employee is scheduled to work...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1165 | Enroll
75% | Requiring, in each fiscal year from 2026 through 2030, up to $100,000 from the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund to be used to fund certain operations grants at a rate of $20,000 per project sponsor each fiscal year; establishing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-06
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB68 | Enroll
75% | Requiring a provider to post the provider's most recent disclosure statement on the provider's website; increasing from yearly to quarterly the number of times a provider is required to hold a meeting open to all the provider's subscribers; requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB609 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing employees of public libraries to form, join, and participate in an employee organization and engage in certain other activities related to collective bargaining; requiring employers and certified exclusive representatives to engage in goo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB253 | Enroll
75% | Making alterations and clarifications related to the duties of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission, the Office of Social Equity, the Advisory Board on Medical and Adult-Use Cannabis, and the Maryland Cannabis Administration; altering the me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB818 | Enroll
75% | Requiring each unit of State government to conduct certain inventories and a certain assessment; prohibiting the Department of Information Technology from making certain information publicly available under certain circumstances; prohibiting a unit o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB151 | Enroll
75% | Requiring the Charles County Board of Education to fill a vacancy on the county board within 90 days after the vacancy occurs; authorizing the Board to choose not to fill a vacancy that occurs in an election year for a seat that is vacant; and requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB14 | Engross
50% | 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; requiring a public official responsible for the use of a publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Wilkins, Griffith and Fair) |
| MD | SB591 | Engross
50% | Authorizing employees of certain public libraries to form, join, and participate in an employee organization and engage in certain other activities related to collective bargaining; requiring employers and certified exclusive representatives to engag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB969 | Enroll
75% | Requiring, in each fiscal year from 2026 through 2030, up to $100,000 from the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund to be used to fund certain operations grants at a rate of $20,000 per project sponsor each fiscal year; establishing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1228 | Enroll
75% | Establishing that certain provisions of law that prohibit a person from making or causing to make a certain telephone solicitation that involves using a certain automated system or playing a recorded message do not apply to a noncommercial telephone ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB1503 | Enroll
75% | Prohibiting, during a regular session of the General Assembly, the State Treasurer and a person acting on behalf of the State Treasurer, as to a candidate for federal, State, or local office or certain campaign finance entities, from receiving a cont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB471 | Enroll
75% | 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] | 2024-03-29
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB641 | Engross
50% | Requiring each local board of elections, at least 6 months prior to each statewide primary election, to designate an outside location for curbside voting, subject to the approval of the State Board; requiring a local board to take into account certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB16 | Engross
50% | 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
50% | 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
50% | 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
50% | 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 | SB372 | Engross
50% | Requiring a candidate seeking a nomination for Governor in a primary election to designate a candidate for Lieutenant Governor within 2 days after certification of the primary election; requiring a candidate seeking a nomination for Governor by any m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB331 | Engross
50% | Altering the definition of "expenditure" to include reasonable expenses for caregiving services that a candidate incurs as a direct result of campaign activity and that are necessary to promote the candidacy of the candidate; and defining "caregiving...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB627 | Engross
50% | Altering the definitions of "automatic voter registration agency" and "applicable transaction" for the purpose of designating the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services as an automatic voter registration agency and requiring the Depart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB978 | Engross
50% | 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 | HB347 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB1356 | Engross
50% | Requiring each village community association for a village of Columbia to require each candidate for election to the village board or the Columbia Council who receives donations or makes disbursements to file reports of the donations and disbursement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB458 | Engross
50% | 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
50% | 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
50% | 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
50% | 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 | HB951 | Intro
25% | Requiring each county board of education to post on the main page of its website a link to the voter registration webpage maintained on the website of the State Board of Elections or the local board of elections of that county and a certain statement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB99 | 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 provisional ballot for the voter's preferred political party.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
Motion Recommit to Committee (Senator Kagan) Adopted |
| MD | HB1489 | 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] | 2024-03-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1514 | 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; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB182 | Intro
25% | Requiring that each legislative district established for the purpose of electing members of the House of Delegates consist of a certain number of single-member delegate districts; requiring the General Assembly to enact a law establishing and governi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB129 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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 | HB40 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-02-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB436 | 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] | 2024-02-23
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | HB80 | Engross
50% | 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; prohibiting individuals from simultaneously being a candidate for, or hold...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
