---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Voting - Permanent Absentee Ballot List, Ballot Drop Boxes, and Reports"
description: "Election Law - Voting - Permanent Absentee Ballot List, Ballot Drop Boxes, and Reports"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 683"
citation: "Maryland SB 683 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kramer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-02-03"
last_action: "2021-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab7a118d-282c-4382-8c0f-705c230f6152"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0683?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "dadb51c3bccc83518ef39bf93b64322363d29af378b64ea3a96147181521349b"
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 683 (2021) — Election Law - Voting - Permanent Absentee Ballot List, Ballot Drop Boxes, and Reports

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Election Law - Voting - Permanent Absentee Ballot List, Ballot Drop Boxes, and Reports** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_56_sb0683e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Election Law - Voting - Permanent Absentee Ballot List, Ballot Drop Boxes, and Reports** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0683e.pdf)
3. **First - Election Law – Permanent Absentee Ballot List** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0683f.pdf)
4. **Third - Election Law - Voting - Permanent Absentee Ballot List, Ballot Drop Boxes, and Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0683t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **31–14** (pass) · upper
- Floor Amendment Simonaire /963725/1 — **15–32** (fail) · upper
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **95–40** (pass) · lower
- Floor Amendment Simonaire /873029/1 — **15–32** (fail) · upper
- Floor Amendment Ready /803728/1 — **14–31** (fail) · upper
- FLA Del. Fisher, M. /253726/1 — **41–94** (fail) · lower
- On third reading — **32–15** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kramer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-03** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-12** Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2021-03-03** Hearing canceled
- **2021-03-03** Hearing 3/03 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-17** Motion Laid Over (Senator Ready) Adopted
- **2021-03-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18** Floor Amendment {
- **2021-03-18** Floor Amendment {
- **2021-03-18** Floor Amendment {
- **2021-03-18** Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Cassilly) Adopted
- **2021-03-18** Floor Amendment {
- **2021-03-18** Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Ferguson) Adopted
- **2021-03-18** Floor Amendment {
- **2021-03-18** Floor Amendment {
- **2021-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-19** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-20** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-20** Hearing 3/30 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-03-31** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-01** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-04-01** Motion Special Order until Later This Session (Delegate M. Fisher) Adopted
- **2021-04-01** Floor Amendment {
- **2021-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-02** Senate Concurs House Amendments
- **2021-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-02** Passed Enrolled
- **2021-04-10** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(b) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 56 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ab7a118d-282c-4382-8c0f-705c230f6152`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).