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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Election Law - Early Voting Centers - Bus Stops"
+description: "Election Law - Early Voting Centers - Bus Stops"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 263"
+citation: "Maryland HB 263 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-09-30"
+last_action: "2026-04-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/704057a5-b9bb-4a29-ae40-c194d4c2625c"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0263?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "89ae3c57484b51a1053a9384e9ed91ebbf3b8c542f1ddeebb3732987ad524ff5"
+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 263 (2026) — Election Law - Early Voting Centers - Bus Stops
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Election Law - Early Voting Centers - Bus Stops** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_106_hb0263t.pdf)
+2. **First - Election Law - Early Voting Centers - Bus Stops** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0263f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Election Law - Early Voting Centers - Bus Stops** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0263t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **41–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **107–27** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chair, Government, Labor, and Elections Committee — primary (organization)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-09-30** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2026-01-14** First Reading Government, Labor, and Elections `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-16** Hearing 2/04 at 2:00 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`
+- **2026-04-02** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-03** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-08** Motion Special Order until 4/9 (Senator Folden) Adopted
+- **2026-04-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2026-04-14** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 106 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/704057a5-b9bb-4a29-ae40-c194d4c2625c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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