---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Campaign Signs at Polling Places"
description: "Election Law - Campaign Signs at Polling Places"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 882"
citation: "Maryland SB 882 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Elections", "Political Candidates", "Rules and Regulations", "Signs and Billboards"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Simonaire"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/819cfaff-99af-4ab6-b05d-9efdfe9d5ffb"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB882&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "b789355621659e31ec412db63079717e2a290642e12e754ceb3ce4fa55cc10fe"
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 882 (2017) — Election Law - Campaign Signs at Polling Places

## 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/sb/sb0882f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Simonaire — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {584639/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-09** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-10** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-10** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 284 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/819cfaff-99af-4ab6-b05d-9efdfe9d5ffb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).