---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Postelection Tabulation Audits - Risk-Limiting Audits"
description: "Election Law - Postelection Tabulation Audits - Risk-Limiting Audits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 313"
citation: "Maryland SB 313 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Washington"]
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/840c01aa-9761-4b21-8aca-7495706466cd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0313?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "7dc69123de8ae7cd095e33738aa317001bf461515cdd0e2df42011187881f48d"
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 313 (2025) — Election Law - Postelection Tabulation Audits - Risk-Limiting Audits

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Election Law - Postelection Tabulation Audits - Risk-Limiting Audits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_320_sb0313t.pdf)
2. **First - Election Law - Postelection Tabulation Audits - Risk-Limiting Audits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0313f.pdf)
3. **Third - Election Law - Postelection Tabulation Audits - Risk-Limiting Audits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0313t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **126–12** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- M. Washington — 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.
- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-15** 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.
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 320 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/840c01aa-9761-4b21-8aca-7495706466cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).