---
type: "Bill"
title: "Somerset County – Elections – County Commissioners Districts and Board of Education Candidate Filings"
description: "Somerset County – Elections – County Commissioners Districts and Board of Education Candidate Filings"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 289"
citation: "Maryland HB 289 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Otto"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-17"
last_action: "2022-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e475fc52-0543-463b-b35a-ff9cd5b6daf7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0289?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "a4ad00a651634971aea42d561622c6e4706c530e859979e8af00edc5a9f060c5"
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 289 (2022) — Somerset County – Elections – County Commissioners Districts and Board of Education Candidate Filings

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Somerset County – Elections – County Commissioners Districts and Board of Education Candidate Filings** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_213_hb0289t.pdf)
2. **First - Somerset County – Elections – County Commissioners Districts and Board of Education Candidate Filings** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0289f.pdf)
3. **Third - Somerset County – Elections – County Commissioners Districts and Board of Education Candidate Filings** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0289t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **132–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Otto — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-17** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** Hearing 2/16 at 10:00 a.m.
- **2022-02-16** Favorable Report by House Rules and Executive Nominations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-17** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-22** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-23** Referred Reapportionment and Redistricting `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-04** Favorable Report by Reapportionment and Redistricting `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2022-04-21** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 213 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e475fc52-0543-463b-b35a-ff9cd5b6daf7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).