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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Elections - Local Boards of Elections - Open Meeting Requirements (Local Boards of Elections Transparency Act)"
+description: "Elections - Local Boards of Elections - Open Meeting Requirements (Local Boards of Elections Transparency Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 337"
+citation: "Maryland SB 337 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kagan"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-16"
+last_action: "2025-05-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4d6fba7-613c-4639-b382-9dd1d0cc8f6e"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0337?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "508b7e579e56ce42e926e23409c5ce13000fc27eb5728ce80de0dd053669f060"
+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 337 (2025) — Elections - Local Boards of Elections - Open Meeting Requirements (Local Boards of Elections Transparency Act)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Elections - Local Boards of Elections - Open Meeting Requirements (Local Boards of Elections Transparency Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_304_sb0337t.pdf)
+2. **First - Elections - Local Boards of Elections and Boards of Canvassers - Open Meeting Requirements (Local Boards of Elections Transparency Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0337f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Elections - Local Boards of Elections - Open Meeting Requirements (Local Boards of Elections Transparency Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0337t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kagan — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-16** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-30** Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-13** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-17** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-25** Hearing canceled
+- **2025-03-25** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-26** Hearing canceled
+- **2025-03-26** Hearing 3/26 at 2:15 p.m.
+- **2025-04-03** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-03** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 304 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b4d6fba7-613c-4639-b382-9dd1d0cc8f6e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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