---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and State Board of Elections - Centralized Booking Facility - Ballot Drop Box"
description: "Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and State Board of Elections - Centralized Booking Facility - Ballot Drop Box"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 525"
citation: "Maryland SB 525 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCray"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-22"
last_action: "2021-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86c20823-e641-43c3-a280-e6a30da11213"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0525?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "bb3763d99f36dbc0e898ac1f06beb66afacc287a69cd96deaee30df579664d96"
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 525 (2021) — Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and State Board of Elections - Centralized Booking Facility - Ballot Drop Box

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and State Board of Elections - Centralized Booking Facility - Ballot Drop Box** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_646_sb0525t.pdf)
2. **First - Baltimore City - Centralized Booking Facility - Voting Information and Early Voting Polling Place** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0525f.pdf)
3. **Third - Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and State Board of Elections- Centralized Booking Facility - Ballot Drop Box** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0525t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **36–11** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **93–44** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse Receded) — **95–43** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McCray — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-22** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-02** Hearing 2/18 at 11:00 a.m.
- **2021-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `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 Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** Hearing 3/31 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-04-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-09** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-12** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2021-04-12** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2021-04-12** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Pinsky, Washington and Lam)
- **2021-04-12** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2021-04-12** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2021-04-12** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Pinsky, Washington and Lam)
- **2021-04-12** Motion Recede (Delegate Clippinger) Adopted
- **2021-04-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-12** House Recede
- **2021-04-12** Returned Passed
- **2021-05-30** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 646 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/86c20823-e641-43c3-a280-e6a30da11213`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).