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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and State Board of Elections - Centralized Booking Facility - Ballot Drop Box"
+description: "Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and State Board of Elections - Centralized Booking Facility - Ballot Drop Box"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 525"
+citation: "Maryland SB 525 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["McCray"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2021-01-22"
+last_action: "2021-05-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86c20823-e641-43c3-a280-e6a30da11213"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0525?ys=2021RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "bb3763d99f36dbc0e898ac1f06beb66afacc287a69cd96deaee30df579664d96"
+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 525 (2021) — Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and State Board of Elections - Centralized Booking Facility - Ballot Drop Box
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and State Board of Elections - Centralized Booking Facility - Ballot Drop Box** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_646_sb0525t.pdf)
+2. **First - Baltimore City - Centralized Booking Facility - Voting Information and Early Voting Polling Place** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0525f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and State Board of Elections- Centralized Booking Facility - Ballot Drop Box** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0525t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **36–11** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **93–44** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse Receded) — **95–43** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- McCray — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-22** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-02** Hearing 2/18 at 11:00 a.m.
+- **2021-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2021-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-03-17** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-23** Hearing 3/31 at 1:30 p.m.
+- **2021-04-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-09** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2021-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-12** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
+- **2021-04-12** Senate Requests House Recede
+- **2021-04-12** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Pinsky, Washington and Lam)
+- **2021-04-12** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
+- **2021-04-12** Senate Requests House Recede
+- **2021-04-12** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Pinsky, Washington and Lam)
+- **2021-04-12** Motion Recede (Delegate Clippinger) Adopted
+- **2021-04-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-12** House Recede
+- **2021-04-12** Returned Passed
+- **2021-05-30** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 646 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/86c20823-e641-43c3-a280-e6a30da11213`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+