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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Election Administration - State Administrator, Local Boards, and Election Directors"
+description: "Election Administration - State Administrator, Local Boards, and Election Directors"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 417"
+citation: "Maryland SB 417 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hayes"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-01-18"
+last_action: "2024-05-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7856b90f-181e-4685-9d48-e34eccd6b575"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0417?ys=2024RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "fd22cf2ee2fd67ac886e9f75e11018b322bd48768df30e60c407d210acc99b13"
+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 417 (2024) — Election Administration - State Administrator, Local Boards, and Election Directors
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Election Administration - State Administrator, Local Boards, and Election Directors** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_579_sb0417t.pdf)
+2. **First - Election Administration - State Administrator, Local Boards, and Election Directors** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0417f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Election Administration - State Administrator, Local Boards, and Election Directors** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0417t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse Receded) — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **134–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hayes — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-18** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-25** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-01-25** Hearing canceled
+- **2024-02-07** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-03-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-06** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-06** Motion Laid Over (Senator Ready) Adopted
+- **2024-03-07** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-03-12** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-16** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2024-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-06** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-08** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
+- **2024-04-08** Senate Requests House Recede
+- **2024-04-08** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
+- **2024-04-08** Senate Requests House Recede
+- **2024-04-08** Motion Recede (Delegate Atterbeary) Adopted
+- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2024-04-08** House Recede
+- **2024-04-08** Returned Passed
+- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 579 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7856b90f-181e-4685-9d48-e34eccd6b575`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+