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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Campaign Financing - Campaign Finance Reporting Deadline and Fair Campaign Financing Fund Distributions"
+description: "Campaign Financing - Campaign Finance Reporting Deadline and Fair Campaign Financing Fund Distributions"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 260"
+citation: "Maryland HB 260 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-09-22"
+last_action: "2026-05-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a45b758-748f-4654-89fd-26d7cd66ba73"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0260?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "c8caab2328daf0178ee2f4df6151167514e27ac0e2033b1c94579a5476af7b01"
+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 260 (2026) — Campaign Financing - Campaign Finance Reporting Deadline and Fair Campaign Financing Fund Distributions
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Campaign Financing - Campaign Finance Reporting Deadline and Fair Campaign Financing Fund Distributions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_443_hb0260e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Campaign Financing - Campaign Finance Reporting Deadline and Fair Campaign Financing Fund Distributions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0260e.pdf)
+3. **First - Public Financing Act – Fair Campaign Financing Fund – Distributions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0260f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Public Financing Act – Fair Campaign Financing Fund – Distributions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0260t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **103–33** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **94–31** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **32–10** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chair, Government, Labor, and Elections Committee — primary (organization)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-09-22** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2026-01-14** First Reading Government, Labor, and Elections `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-16** Hearing 1/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-02-23** Favorable Report by Government, Labor, and Elections `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-24** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-24** Second Reading Passed
+- **2026-02-26** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-02-27** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2026-04-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-08** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-04-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-11** House Concurs Senate Amendments
+- **2026-04-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-11** Passed Enrolled
+- **2026-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 443 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1a45b758-748f-4654-89fd-26d7cd66ba73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+