---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law – Candidates – Revisions"
description: "Election Law – Candidates – Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 176"
citation: "Maryland HB 176 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Anne Arundel County", "Ballots", "Certifications", "Committees and Commissions", "Communications", "Data", "Education", "Boards of", "Elections", "Elections Supervisors", "Forms", "Notices", "Political Candidates", "Political Committees", "Political Parties", "Public Officials", "Signatures", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d151aed9-69c4-47c6-9980-fd7dde94a234"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB176&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "b3ec143571cb772c6a8cd73948bde587cfaef50fba55026623d8019f77d28e1c"
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 176 (2019) — Election Law – Candidates – Revisions

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0176f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **141–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Ways and Means Committee (By Request - Departmental - State Board of Elections) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-23** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-24** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-20** Favorable with Amendments {505762/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-02-22** Third Reading Passed (141-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-25** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-28** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 155 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d151aed9-69c4-47c6-9980-fd7dde94a234`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).