---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Early Voting Centers"
description: "Election Law - Early Voting Centers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 745"
citation: "Maryland HB 745 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Luedtke"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-29"
last_action: "2021-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02428012-3e90-463d-9423-de1888372b1b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0745?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "2a0e4e750dde35422a6a7649c4f2eff8ab12461027eabe30ce6d4e9726eff206"
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 745 (2021) — Election Law - Early Voting Centers

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Election Law - Early Voting Centers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_43_hb0745t.pdf)
2. **First - Election Law - Early Voting Centers - Number Required** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0745f.pdf)
3. **Third - Election Law - Early Voting Centers** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0745t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **100–36** (pass) · lower
- Floor Amendment Simonaire /383225/1 — **17–30** (fail) · upper
- On third reading — **33–14** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Luedtke — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-29** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-01** Hearing 2/16 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-17** Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2021-03-30** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-30** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2021-03-31** Floor Amendment {
- **2021-03-31** Floor Amendment {
- **2021-03-31** Floor Amendment {
- **2021-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2021-04-09** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(b) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 43 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/02428012-3e90-463d-9423-de1888372b1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).