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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Election Law – Candidates – Revisions"
+description: "Election Law – Candidates – Revisions"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 176"
+citation: "Maryland HB 176 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Elections", "Anne Arundel County", "Ballots", "Certifications", "Committees and Commissions", "Communications", "Data", "Education", "Boards of", "Elections", "Elections Supervisors", "Forms", "Notices", "Political Candidates", "Political Committees", "Political Parties", "Public Officials", "Signatures", "Time"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-23"
+last_action: "2019-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d151aed9-69c4-47c6-9980-fd7dde94a234"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB176&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "b3ec143571cb772c6a8cd73948bde587cfaef50fba55026623d8019f77d28e1c"
+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 176 (2019) — Election Law – Candidates – Revisions
+
+## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0176f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **141–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chair — primary (person)
+- Ways and Means Committee (By Request - Departmental - State Board of Elections) — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-23** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-24** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-02-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-20** Favorable with Amendments {505762/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-02-22** Third Reading Passed (141-0) `passage`
+- **2019-02-25** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-08** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-28** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-28** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 155 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d151aed9-69c4-47c6-9980-fd7dde94a234`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+