---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Election Judges - Compensation"
description: "Election Law - Election Judges - Compensation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 586"
citation: "Maryland HB 586 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Jones"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c0957f0-4218-4828-994a-c8f8e026fa27"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0586?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "4cebc8093210a2bc09aaec1d89a819c79b9106ec940b24261e12fedf78e0b34c"
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 586 (2025) — Election Law - Election Judges - Compensation

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Election Law - Election Judges - Compensation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_390_hb0586e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Election Law - Election Judges - Compensation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0586e.pdf)
3. **First - Election Law - Election Judges - Compensation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0586f.pdf)
4. **Third - Election Law - Election Judges - Compensation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0586t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **99–35** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **110–29** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- D. Jones — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-23** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-24** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-28** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 390 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c0957f0-4218-4828-994a-c8f8e026fa27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).