---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Recounts - Procedures"
description: "Election Law - Recounts - Procedures"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 371"
citation: "Maryland HB 371 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Grossman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-17"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b3d7d0e-9f6c-492d-bc97-e9e5a5b893b2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0371?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "2d261f40d9fea538f01935a3b05b75c1d632f17aa4a7e914a6b4790d73ed0ff2"
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 371 (2024) — Election Law - Recounts - Procedures

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Election Law - Recounts - Procedures** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_220_hb0371t.pdf)
2. **First - Election Law - Recounts - Procedures** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0371f.pdf)
3. **Third - Election Law - Recounts - Procedures** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0371t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Grossman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-17** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-22** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-06** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Referred Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-08** Rereferred to Education, Energy, and the Environment
- **2024-04-08** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 220 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b3d7d0e-9f6c-492d-bc97-e9e5a5b893b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).