---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Revisions"
description: "Election Law - Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 271"
citation: "Maryland SB 271 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 31
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-09-15"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/756ba80e-eee4-4285-b23d-e3c861166ebd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0271?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "eacafb395bb57e840666d03c8f24ca579d0d1dfbdc26bec3936edd45949e980c"
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 271 (2024) — Election Law - Revisions

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Election Law - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_430_sb0271e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Election Law - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0271e.pdf)
3. **First - Election Law - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0271f.pdf)
4. **Third - Election Law - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0271t.pdf)

## Votes

- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (CCR Adp) — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chair, Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-09-15** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-21** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-19** Hearing canceled
- **2024-03-19** Hearing 3/19 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2024-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-01** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2024-04-04** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2024-04-04** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Kagan, Hester and Simonaire)
- **2024-04-06** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2024-04-06** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2024-04-06** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Kagan, Hester and Simonaire)
- **2024-04-06** House Refuses Recede
- **2024-04-06** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Wilkins, Fair and Griffith)
- **2024-04-06** House Refuses Recede
- **2024-04-06** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Wilkins, Fair and Griffith)
- **2024-04-08** Conference Committee Report {
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Conference Committee Report {
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 430 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/756ba80e-eee4-4285-b23d-e3c861166ebd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).