---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Absentee Ballots - Notice to Request Application"
description: "Election Law - Absentee Ballots - Notice to Request Application"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 93"
citation: "Maryland SB 93 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kramer"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 28
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-10-29"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b77dd57-9585-4560-b841-cbd151744bb2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0093?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "2a3157a12a10d020c2260e3d052140315bc48ae7d0f6a21a1106209b81a52b22"
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 93 (2025) — Election Law - Absentee Ballots - Notice to Request Application

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Election Law - Absentee Ballots - Notice to Request Application** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_310_sb0093t.pdf)
2. **First - Election Law - Absentee Ballot Application - Sending to Eligible Voters Before Primary Elections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0093f.pdf)
3. **Third - Election Law - Absentee Ballots - Notice to Request Application** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0093t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Amend) — **104–36** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse Receded) — **104–36** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kramer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-29** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-03** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-03** Hearing 2/05 at 2:00 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`
- **2025-03-18** 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.
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2025-04-07** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2025-04-07** Motion Recede (Delegate Atterbeary) Adopted
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** House Recede
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 310 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b77dd57-9585-4560-b841-cbd151744bb2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).