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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Election Law - Absentee Ballots - State and Federal Requirements"
+description: "Election Law - Absentee Ballots - State and Federal Requirements"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 949"
+citation: "Maryland SB 949 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kagan"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-02-06"
+last_action: "2026-05-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9116ec31-0ef0-4fdb-bdcf-7dce84e5f262"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0949?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "fd994abf7310ca36d78becb8edb11389424b65e0dfe1aa53a47bfae4eb9b1cf1"
+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 949 (2026) — Election Law - Absentee Ballots - State and Federal Requirements
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Election Law - Absentee Ballots - State and Federal Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_440_sb0949t.pdf)
+2. **First - Election Law - Canvassing of Absentee Ballots - Preemption by Federal Judicial Action** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0949f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Election Law - Absentee Ballots - State and Federal Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0949t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **35–10** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **96–36** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kagan — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-02-06** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-10** Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-04-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-10** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-10** Motion Laid Over (Senator Jennings) Adopted
+- **2026-04-10** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-13** Referred Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
+- **2026-04-13** Rereferred to Government, Labor, and Elections
+- **2026-04-13** Favorable Report by Government, Labor, and Elections `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-13** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-13** Second Reading Passed
+- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-13** Returned Passed
+- **2026-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 440 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9116ec31-0ef0-4fdb-bdcf-7dce84e5f262`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+