---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Absentee Ballot Requests - Last Four Digits of Social Security Number"
description: "Election Law - Absentee Ballot Requests - Last Four Digits of Social Security Number"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 174"
citation: "Maryland HB 174 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Armed Forces", "Ballots", "Cybersecurity", "Data", "Disabilities", "Elections", "Elections", "State Board of", "Identification", "Internet", "Privacy", "Voting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/183addc8-4905-4dac-a027-8b0161912215"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB174&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "10ee6881abecfb7e66c5e1a028d25b1b93ef3c81a32200db8e2806ea83de5da5"
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 174 (2019) — Election Law - Absentee Ballot Requests - Last Four Digits of Social Security Number

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0174f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## 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.

- **2019-01-23** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-24** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-11** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-12** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-12** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-02-14** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-15** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-28** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 154 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/183addc8-4905-4dac-a027-8b0161912215`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).