---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Candidate for Circuit Court Judge Defeated in Primary Election"
description: "Election Law - Candidate for Circuit Court Judge Defeated in Primary Election"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1382"
citation: "Maryland HB 1382 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Courts and Court Personnel - Statewide", "Ballots", "Circuit Courts", "Contests", "Elections", "Judges", "Political Candidates"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barron"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de8f5cef-b985-47ec-8c4b-68ae6ccb4ddc"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1382&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "a0b3692d31a81f92e54f9420ef1dbd48a33bac1fe0a028cbce6662e1b1c72fe2"
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 1382 (2017) — Election Law - Candidate for Circuit Court Judge Defeated in Primary Election

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1382f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **129–11** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Barron — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-10** First Reading Judiciary and Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m. (Judiciary)
- **2017-03-15** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-16** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-16** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-17** Third Reading Passed (129-11) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Special Order until next session (Senator Muse) Adopted
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 439 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/de8f5cef-b985-47ec-8c4b-68ae6ccb4ddc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).