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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Baltimore County - Political Party Central Committee - Elections"
+description: "Baltimore County - Political Party Central Committee - Elections"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 562"
+citation: "Maryland HB 562 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Baltimore County Delegation"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-23"
+last_action: "2025-05-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f74ce4d6-b46c-4ac1-a50b-bb30a5db3b49"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0562?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "647df04a68fab35faa1ce897b3aaa5214bce54a8746d76e3410fcdc43572f079"
+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 562 (2025) — Baltimore County - Political Party Central Committee - Elections
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Baltimore County - Political Party Central Committee - Elections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_413_hb0562t.pdf)
+2. **First - Baltimore County - Republican Party Central Committee - Elections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0562f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Baltimore County - Political Party Central Committee - Elections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0562t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Baltimore County Delegation — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-23** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-28** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-17** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-18** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 413 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f74ce4d6-b46c-4ac1-a50b-bb30a5db3b49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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