---
type: "Bill"
title: "Campaign Financing - Campaign Finance Reporting Deadline and Fair Campaign Financing Fund Distributions"
description: "Campaign Financing - Campaign Finance Reporting Deadline and Fair Campaign Financing Fund Distributions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 11"
citation: "Maryland SB 11 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-09-22"
last_action: "2026-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/880c8e79-df7e-47cc-8315-35738ebd0d7c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0011?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "d9e0dc6b1e7ba0728176cab0b98d5641d3a6c392a342cb1886a1d41efbe6ac2e"
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 11 (2026) — Campaign Financing - Campaign Finance Reporting Deadline and Fair Campaign Financing Fund Distributions

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Campaign Financing - Campaign Finance Reporting Deadline and Fair Campaign Financing Fund Distributions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_442_sb0011e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Campaign Financing - Campaign Finance Reporting Deadline and Fair Campaign Financing Fund Distributions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0011e.pdf)
3. **First - Public Financing Act - Fair Campaign Financing Fund - Distributions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0011f.pdf)
4. **Third - Campaign Financing - Campaign Finance Reporting Deadline and Fair Campaign Financing Fund Distributions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0011t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Amend) — **101–33** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **35–8** (pass) · upper
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **32–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair, Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-09-22** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2026-01-14** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-16** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-02-09** Hearing canceled
- **2026-02-09** Hearing 2/11 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2026-03-02** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-03-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-06** Referred Government, Labor, and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-24** Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Government, Labor, and Elections `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-09** Senate Concurs House Amendments
- **2026-04-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-09** Passed Enrolled
- **2026-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 442 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/880c8e79-df7e-47cc-8315-35738ebd0d7c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).