---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Voting Systems Costs and Polling Places - Requirements"
description: "Election Law - Voting Systems Costs and Polling Places - Requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 158"
citation: "Maryland SB 158 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kagan"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-09-28"
last_action: "2022-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dbac802c-c1b8-468b-979c-d9f03614f3b3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0158?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ff6ebc76386934f035e4534da7b8d5e98065f0ceb0655c21ecd3c86c24be74b6"
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 158 (2022) — Election Law - Voting Systems Costs and Polling Places - Requirements

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Election Law - Voting Systems Costs and Polling Places - Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_35_sb0158e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Election Law - Uniform Statewide Voting Systems - Cost Sharing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0158e.pdf)
3. **First - State Board of Elections - Contracts and Invoices - Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0158f.pdf)
4. **Third - Election Law - Uniform Statewide Voting Systems - Cost Sharing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0158t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Emerg/Amend) — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kagan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-09-28** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-13** Hearing 1/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-01-13** Hearing canceled
- **2022-01-13** Hearing 1/26 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2022-03-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-02** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-02** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-16** Floor Amendment {
- **2022-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-16** Senate Concurs House Amendments
- **2022-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-16** Passed Enrolled
- **2022-04-09** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(b) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 35 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dbac802c-c1b8-468b-979c-d9f03614f3b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).