Elections: Ballot, Voting, Security [HB-132]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Public Safety ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
An Act relating to election security, voting, and ballots; and providing for an effective date.
HB-132: Elections: Ballot, Voting, Security
Sponsored by: Rep.
Read The First Time - Referrals on 03/22/2023
Elections: Voter Reg./legal Fund/comms [HB-129]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Data Privacy ]
An Act relating to elections; relating to voter registration; relating to candidate legal funds; relating to voting; relating to special needs voting; relating to absentee voting; relating to defamation claims based on the use of synthetic media; relating to the use of synthetic media in electioneering communications; and providing for an effective date.
HB-129: Elections: Voter Reg./legal Fund/comms
Sponsored by: Rep.
Motion To Take Up Concur on 05/15/2024
Voting Machines And Vote Tally Systems [HB-131]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
An Act relating to voting machines and vote tally systems; and providing for an effective date.
HB-131: Voting Machines And Vote Tally Systems
Sponsored by: Rep.
Read The First Time - Referrals on 03/22/2023
HB-205: Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the conditions under which a voter may cast an absentee ballot and how a voter may receive an absentee ballot application.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Read Third Time In Full -- Failed 30-40-0 on 03/13/2023
You have voted HB-205: Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding the conditions under which a voter may cast an absentee ballot and how a voter may receive an absentee ballot application..
Cook Inlet: New Admin Area;permit Buyback [SB-82]
[Agriculture ]
[Water ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Economic Development ]
An Act relating to the powers of the Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission; relating to administrative areas for regulation of certain commercial set net entry permits; establishing a buy-back program for certain set net entry permits; providing for the termination of state set net tract leases under the buy-back program; closing certain water to commercial fishing; and providing for an effective date.
SB-82: Cook Inlet: New Admin Area;permit Buyback
Sponsored by: Sen. Jesse Bjorkman
Res Rpt Recd Await Transmittal Nxt on 05/01/2023
Baltimore County – Board of Education – Membership [HB-1265]
[Education ]
[Elections ]
Repealing the requirement that four members of the Baltimore County Board of Education be appointed; requiring four members of the county board to be elected from the county at large; and repealing the Baltimore County School Board Nominating Commission.
HB-1265: Baltimore County – Board of Education – Membership
Sponsored by: Rep. Nino Mangione
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 02/17/2023
Election Law - Polling Places at Continuing Care Retirement Communities [HB-1264]
[Elections ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Voting Rights ]
Requiring local boards of elections to establish separate precincts at certain continuing care retirement communities to serve at least the residents of the continuing care retirement community if the community requests that a polling place be established on the premises; and requiring the continuing care retirement communities to provide to the local boards facilities that meet certain requirements to be used as polling places and assistance in recruiting election judges from among the residents of the communities.
HB-1264: Election Law - Polling Places at Continuing Care Retirement Communities
Sponsored by: Rep. Nino Mangione
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 02/17/2023
Election Law - Automatic Voter Registration - Alterations [SB-888]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Healthcare ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Altering automatic voter registration procedures at the Motor Vehicle Administration and the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange; requiring the voter registration information of certain applicants at the Administration and the Exchange to be transmitted to the State Board of Elections under certain circumstances; etc.
SB-888: Election Law - Automatic Voter Registration - Alterations
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Washington
First Reading Senate Rules on 02/13/2023
Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission - Members MC/PG 109-23 [HB-1009]
[Elections ]
[Community Development ]
Repealing the requirement that not more than three members of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission from each county be members of the same political party; requiring the County Council of Montgomery County and the County Executive of Prince George's County to consider certain diversity needs when making appointments for membership on the Commission; establishing that the party composition of county commissioners from each county shall be based on the election results for the County Executive; etc.
HB-1009: Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission - Members MC/PG 109-23
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/16/2023
Election Law - Registered Voter List and Petitions (Ballot Petition Modernization Act) [HB-1112]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
Repealing the requirement that, to sign a petition, an individual sign the individual's name in a certain form; requiring that information requested from an individual signing a petition that is not required under certain provisions of law be marked as optional on a petition signature page; altering the circumstances under which signatures on a petition must be validated and counted or invalidated; authorizing the use of electronic signatures on a petition; etc.
HB-1112: Election Law - Registered Voter List and Petitions (Ballot Petition Modernization Act)
Sponsored by: Rep. Samuel Rosenberg
Hearing 3/07 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/13/2023
Elections in Villages of Columbia - Voting Rights Ho. Co. 17-23 [HB-1024]
[Voting Rights ]
[Elections ]
[Community Development ]
Requiring that in certain elections conducted by a village community association for a village of Columbia each owner of a residential lot is entitled to one vote; and requiring that, if a village community association for a village of Columbia allows lessees to vote in certain elections conducted by the village community association, each holder of a residential leasehold is entitled to one vote.
HB-1024: Elections in Villages of Columbia - Voting Rights Ho. Co. 17-23
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/06/2023
Election Law – Early Voting – Number of Days [HB-1092]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
Altering the number of days from 8 to 4 on which early voting centers are required to be open before a primary or general election.
HB-1092: Election Law – Early Voting – Number of Days
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Buckel
Hearing 3/07 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/13/2023
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission – Membership – Alterations MC/PG 110–23 [HB-1007]
[Water ]
[Environmental ]
[Public Safety ]
[Community Development ]
Adding the general manager of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission as a member of the Commission; and requiring that one commissioner from Prince George's County and one commissioner from Montgomery County be a subject matter expert in the area of water conservation, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, environmental engineering, or chemical engineering.
Voting Rights Act of 2023 - Counties and Municipalities [HB-1104]
[Voting Rights ]
[Elections ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Prohibiting local governments from impairing or diminishing the right of a protected class member to vote or influence election outcomes; establishing requirements on local governments regarding proposals for shifting methods of election and districting plans; requiring the Civil Rights Division of the Office of the Attorney General to approve or deny proposed local government remedies to address certain violations; establishing the Statewide Election Database and Information Office; etc.
HB-1104: Voting Rights Act of 2023 - Counties and Municipalities
Sponsored by: Rep. Stephanie Smith
Hearing 3/07 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/13/2023
Public-Private Partnerships [HB-1201]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Construction ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Public Safety ]
Establishing the Public-Private Partnership Oversight Review Board to review public-private partnership presolicitation reports and make certain recommendations; requiring a certain reporting agency to include in presolicitation reports for public-private partnerships with a total value that exceeds $500,000,000 presolicitation reports of certain contracts; requiring a reporting agency to submit a separate presolicitation report for each phase of a project that will develop in phases; etc.
HB-1201: Public-Private Partnerships
Sponsored by: Rep. Jared Solomon
Hearing 3/07 At 1:00 P.m. (environment And Transportation) on 02/13/2023