---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law – Chief Election Judges – Party Affiliation"
description: "Election Law – Chief Election Judges – Party Affiliation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 308"
citation: "Maryland SB 308 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brooks", "Kagan", "Simonaire"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8f0e0da-e71b-4487-9cc2-dc5e479ed5af"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0308?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "676722d1e1de4c4cdeeafd50f5987c1c89731b9dbac4136f4fc97ee614b8f363"
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 308 (2025) — Election Law – Chief Election Judges – Party Affiliation

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Election Law – Chief Election Judges – Party Affiliation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_276_sb0308t.pdf)
2. **First - Election Law – Chief Election Judges – Party Affiliation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0308f.pdf)
3. **Third - Election Law – Chief Election Judges – Party Affiliation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0308t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brooks — primary (person)
- Kagan — primary (person)
- Simonaire — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-25** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-25** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-26** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-26** Hearing 3/26 at 2:15 p.m.
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** 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 276 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c8f0e0da-e71b-4487-9cc2-dc5e479ed5af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).