---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Municipal Elections - Administration"
description: "Election Law - Municipal Elections - Administration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 322"
citation: "Maryland HB 322 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wims"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-10"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d9b3aaef-197b-4a19-92a2-606f9ca8423a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0322?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "779ccb013e9992f83c4b887c535707b99819801ef216b0220cfc6e2e59b8d55a"
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 322 (2025) — Election Law - Municipal Elections - Administration

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Election Law - Municipal Elections - Administration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_124_hb0322t.pdf)
2. **First - Election Law - State Administrator of Elections - Municipal Elections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0322f.pdf)
3. **Third - Election Law - Municipal Elections - Administration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0322t.pdf)

## Votes

- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. (Emerg) — **41–5** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **99–34** (pass) · lower
- Floor Amendment Folden /793125/1 — **14–32** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wims — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-10** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-18** Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-24** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-28** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 124 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d9b3aaef-197b-4a19-92a2-606f9ca8423a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).