---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Change in Administrative Policy Affecting Voting Rights - Notice"
description: "Election Law - Change in Administrative Policy Affecting Voting Rights - Notice"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 353"
citation: "Maryland HB 353 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Elections", "Elections", "State Board of", "Forms", "Fraud", "Notices", "Public Information", "Voting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rosenberg and Luedtke"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-25"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c3d7451-5b6b-4711-b7d2-5f0212480552"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB353&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "a286d0d1998c527bb546e369a3f3c58a735e9864f876a8a93bcce9146f817030"
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 353 (2017) — Election Law - Change in Administrative Policy Affecting Voting Rights - Notice

## 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/hb0353f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Rosenberg and Luedtke — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-25** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {805662/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-18** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-05** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 441 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7c3d7451-5b6b-4711-b7d2-5f0212480552`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).