---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law – Early Voting Centers – Establishment"
description: "Election Law – Early Voting Centers – Establishment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 237"
citation: "Maryland HB 237 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Counties", "Demographics", "Elections", "Elections Supervisors", "Elections", "State Board of", "Holidays and Special Dates", "Time", "Voting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Washington"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-24"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d27b0f9-8857-4be8-b6b3-eb0d46003996"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB237&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "1e7f066cabfcf350024ac95e886a800426e3ac26b5e30c4f52a515885a3de0cc"
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 237 (2019) — Election Law – Early Voting Centers – Establishment

## 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/hb0237f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **112–29** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **43–3** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **119–18** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Washington — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-24** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-24** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-18** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-20** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-20** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-02-22** Third Reading Passed (112-29) `passage`
- **2019-02-25** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Favorable with Amendments {614133/1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Special Order until 4/5 (Senator Hayes) Adopted
- **2019-04-05** Favorable with Amendments {614133/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (43-3) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2019-04-08** Third Reading Passed (119-18) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 539 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5d27b0f9-8857-4be8-b6b3-eb0d46003996`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).