---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local Government - Municipal Elections - No-Excuse Absentee Voting"
description: "Local Government - Municipal Elections - No-Excuse Absentee Voting"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 829"
citation: "Maryland HB 829 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Municipalities", "Ballots", "Municipal Corporations", "Voting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Washington"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-02"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9c47d34-b7f5-4ce7-af8c-3f12c343a84e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB829&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "9062f96d6c80327c921955dcdc288f45c75751a6c506c0d65ae6d54224307318"
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 829 (2018) — Local Government - Municipal Elections - No-Excuse Absentee Voting

## 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/hb0829f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **35–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- A. Washington — primary (person)
- Ali — cosponsor (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Clippinger — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Frick — cosponsor (person)
- Frush — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Korman — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-02** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-06** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-22** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-23** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-23** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-02-27** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-28** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed (35-11) `passage`
- **2018-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 746 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c9c47d34-b7f5-4ce7-af8c-3f12c343a84e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).