---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Gubernatorial Primary Election - Date"
description: "Election Law - Gubernatorial Primary Election - Date"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 945"
citation: "Maryland HB 945 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wilkins"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f1cdc824-0b65-4bc4-828f-ad3bbcaea2b1"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0945?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "b954b0de78368d88975868f34151fb2dc31880178f91ad192c042c5a284e8c9f"
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 945 (2025) — Election Law - Gubernatorial Primary Election - Date

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Election Law - Gubernatorial Primary Election - Date** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_312_hb0945t.pdf)
2. **First - Election Law - Gubernatorial Primary Election - Date** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0945f.pdf)
3. **Third - Election Law - Gubernatorial Primary Election - Date** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0945t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **132–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wilkins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-12** 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** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 312 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f1cdc824-0b65-4bc4-828f-ad3bbcaea2b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).