---
type: "Bill"
title: "Elections - Miscellaneous Duties and Procedures"
description: "Elections - Miscellaneous Duties and Procedures"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 143"
citation: "Maryland HB 143 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Ballots", "Banks and Trust Companies", "Disclosure", "Elections", "Elections", "State Board of", "Forms", "Identification", "Political Candidates", "Political Parties", "Printing", "Residency"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a8d2075-a0cb-4821-a7c9-da179232959b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB143&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "cbc365ca145f41ca71ff147d2856cee89cc07b02d83ca4465e2452226d11e3b8"
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 143 (2017) — Elections - Miscellaneous Duties and Procedures

## 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/hb0143f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Ways and Means Committee (By Request - Departmental - State Board of Elections) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Hearing 2/07 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2017-02-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-17** Favorable with Amendments {545563/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-17** Special Order until 2/21 (Delegate McDonough) Adopted
- **2017-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-23** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-24** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 107 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a8d2075-a0cb-4821-a7c9-da179232959b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).