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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Local Government - Municipal Elections - No-Excuse Absentee Voting"
+description: "Local Government - Municipal Elections - No-Excuse Absentee Voting"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 829"
+citation: "Maryland HB 829 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Municipalities", "Ballots", "Municipal Corporations", "Voting"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["A. Washington"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-02"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9c47d34-b7f5-4ce7-af8c-3f12c343a84e"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB829&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "9062f96d6c80327c921955dcdc288f45c75751a6c506c0d65ae6d54224307318"
+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 829 (2018) — Local Government - Municipal Elections - No-Excuse Absentee Voting
+
+## 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/hb0829f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **35–11** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- A. Washington — primary (person)
+- Ali — cosponsor (person)
+- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
+- Clippinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
+- Frick — cosponsor (person)
+- Frush — cosponsor (person)
+- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Korman — cosponsor (person)
+- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
+- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
+- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
+- Moon — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-02** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-06** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-22** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-23** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-23** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-02-27** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
+- **2018-02-28** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed (35-11) `passage`
+- **2018-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 746 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c9c47d34-b7f5-4ce7-af8c-3f12c343a84e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+