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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Election Law - Cybersecurity"
+description: "Election Law - Cybersecurity"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 1331"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1331 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Elections", "Ballots", "Crimes and Punishments", "Cybersecurity", "Elections", "Elections Supervisors", "Elections", "State Board of", "Electronic Government", "Identification", "Information Technology", "Department of", "Notices", "Reports"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["A. Washington"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-02-09"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b0fb09f-687e-4689-8c87-277aaeff4306"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1331&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "67acbc7c49b505bee8acb9200141e54ac7dc544aa2d729040895d641996353b2"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
+---
+
+# Maryland HB 1331 (2018) — Election Law - Cybersecurity
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1331f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **140–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- A. Washington — primary (person)
+- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
+- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Rose — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-09** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-12** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {765867/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-16** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-19** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-22** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {474332/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
+- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 524 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7b0fb09f-687e-4689-8c87-277aaeff4306`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+