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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Student and Military Voter Empowerment Act"
+description: "Student and Military Voter Empowerment Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 283"
+citation: "Maryland SB 283 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Elfreth"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2020-09-30"
+last_action: "2021-05-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d6c57598-cdde-4148-a112-71f87e655b34"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0283?ys=2021RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "f155d7d0f80c3deb4567a8624f93ad2878f0ef15498abdc699f59dd0ad24e564"
+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 SB 283 (2021) — Student and Military Voter Empowerment Act
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Student and Military Voter Empowerment Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_657_sb0283e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Student and Military Voter Empowerment Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0283e.pdf)
+3. **First - Student and Military Voter Empowerment Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0283f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Student and Military Voter Empowerment Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0283t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **107–28** (pass) · lower
+- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- Floor Amendment Ready /643720/1 — **14–30** (fail) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Elfreth — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-09-30** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2021-01-13** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-19** Hearing 2/04 at 11:00 a.m.
+- **2021-03-02** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-03** Motion Laid Over (Senator Jennings) Adopted
+- **2021-03-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-04** Motion Special Order until 3/5 (Senator Kagan) Adopted
+- **2021-03-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-05** Floor Amendment {
+- **2021-03-05** Floor Amendment {
+- **2021-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2021-03-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-03-10** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-12** Hearing 3/23 at 1:30 p.m.
+- **2021-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2021-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-07** Senate Concurs House Amendments
+- **2021-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-07** Passed Enrolled
+- **2021-05-30** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 657 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d6c57598-cdde-4148-a112-71f87e655b34`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+