---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Canvassing of Absentee Ballots - Reporting Unofficial Results"
description: "Election Law - Canvassing of Absentee Ballots - Reporting Unofficial Results"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 230"
citation: "Maryland SB 230 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Ballots", "Elections", "Elections Supervisors", "Political Candidates", "Political Committees", "Political Parties", "Reports", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hough"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-25"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ee16cdc-e1ca-4c69-9357-920ee5f30f7e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB230&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "aa2115b18732b53b4b3f8795ef3d319bd8a91c8988d6fcb7ae30f718381476d3"
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 230 (2019) — Election Law - Canvassing of Absentee Ballots - Reporting Unofficial Results

## 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/sb/sb0230f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–2** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hough — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-25** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-21** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-22** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-22** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-02-26** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-27** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-05** Special Order until 04/06 (Delegate Atterbeary) Adopted
- **2019-04-06** Third Reading Passed (137-2) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 42 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ee16cdc-e1ca-4c69-9357-920ee5f30f7e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).