---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Cybersecurity"
description: "Election Law - Cybersecurity"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1331"
citation: "Maryland HB 1331 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Ballots", "Crimes and Punishments", "Cybersecurity", "Elections", "Elections Supervisors", "Elections", "State Board of", "Electronic Government", "Identification", "Information Technology", "Department of", "Notices", "Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Washington"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-09"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b0fb09f-687e-4689-8c87-277aaeff4306"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1331&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "67acbc7c49b505bee8acb9200141e54ac7dc544aa2d729040895d641996353b2"
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 1331 (2018) — Election Law - Cybersecurity

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1331f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **140–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Washington — primary (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-09** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {765867/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-16** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-22** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {474332/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 524 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7b0fb09f-687e-4689-8c87-277aaeff4306`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).