---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Campaign Signs at Polling Places"
description: "Election Law - Campaign Signs at Polling Places"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 619"
citation: "Maryland HB 619 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Elections", "Political Candidates", "Rules and Regulations", "Signs and Billboards"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hornberger"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7744b668-2bb3-458a-8d93-8bb5e3a9fa4c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB619&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "21a5e64f8f60d5d0217c392a85477239251a5f44ff55d55268dd19c7bfd4a23e"
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 619 (2017) — Election Law - Campaign Signs at Polling Places

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0619f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hornberger — primary (person)
- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
- W. Miller — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-30** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {225062/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-10** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-13** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 285 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7744b668-2bb3-458a-8d93-8bb5e3a9fa4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).