---
type: "Bill"
title: "County Boards of Education - Appointment to Fill a Vacancy of an Elected Member - Candidate Information Requests"
description: "County Boards of Education - Appointment to Fill a Vacancy of an Elected Member - Candidate Information Requests"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 334"
citation: "Maryland SB 334 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education - Miscellaneous", "Primary and Secondary Education", "Communications", "Data", "Education", "Boards of", "Elections", "Electronic Government", "Internet", "Political Candidates", "Publications", "Public Information", "Public Officials", "Records"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hough"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-30"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82169d81-3b39-4131-b7c3-bdd3dba7b00f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB334&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "1abddb8c8687422795c440ef566181240e7c849f57d92321790b6341f4b40e80"
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 334 (2019) — County Boards of Education - Appointment to Fill a Vacancy of an Elected Member - Candidate Information Requests

## 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/sb/sb0334f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hough — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-30** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Favorable with Amendments {454132/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-07** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-05** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 496 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/82169d81-3b39-4131-b7c3-bdd3dba7b00f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).