---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Ballot Issuance, Processing, and Reporting Procedures and 2024 Primary Date"
description: "Election Law - Ballot Issuance, Processing, and Reporting Procedures and 2024 Primary Date"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 535"
citation: "Maryland HB 535 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Johnson", "Allen", "Amprey", "Attar", "Atterbeary", "Bagnall", "Bartlett", "Barve", "Bhandari", "Boyce", "Bridges", "Chang", "Charles", "Crosby", "Crutchfield", "D. Barnes", "D. Jones", "Ebersole", "Feldmark", "Fennell", "Foley", "Forbes", "Grossman", "Guzzone", "Healey", "Henson", "Jackson", "Kaiser", "Kaufman", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Lehman", "Love", "Mireku-North", "Moon", "Pasteur", "Patterson", "Pena-Melnyk", "Pruski", "Rogers", "Ruth", "S. Johnson", "Shetty", "Simmons", "Simpson", "Smith", "Stewart", "Taveras", "Terrasa", "Toles", "Valderrama", "Vogel", "Watson", "Wells", "White", "Williams", "Wu"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-01"
last_action: "2023-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2fe5332d-9991-45ef-b678-41b9e73ac8ea"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0535?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "08c5d4f4c55f6220b9f577fef453941db2ea5e28a604b304b688df01a5a74e5f"
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 535 (2023) — Election Law - Ballot Issuance, Processing, and Reporting Procedures and 2024 Primary Date

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Election Law - Ballot Issuance, Processing, and Reporting Procedures and 2024 Primary Date** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_151_hb0535e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Election Law - Ballot Issuance, Processing, and Reporting Procedures and 2024 Primary Date** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0535e.pdf)
3. **First - Election Law - Ballots - Processing and Reporting Procedures** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0535f.pdf)
4. **Third - Election Law - Ballots - Issuance, Processing, and Reporting Procedures** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0535t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- A. Johnson — primary (person)
- Allen — primary (person)
- Amprey — primary (person)
- Attar — primary (person)
- Atterbeary — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bartlett — primary (person)
- Barve — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Boyce — primary (person)
- Bridges — primary (person)
- Chang — primary (person)
- Charles — primary (person)
- Crosby — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- D. Barnes — primary (person)
- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Ebersole — primary (person)
- Feldmark — primary (person)
- Fennell — primary (person)
- Foley — primary (person)
- Forbes — primary (person)
- Grossman — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Healey — primary (person)
- Henson — primary (person)
- Jackson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Kelly — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Love — primary (person)
- Mireku-North — primary (person)
- Moon — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Pruski — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Simmons — primary (person)
- Simpson — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Stewart — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- Toles — primary (person)
- Valderrama — primary (person)
- Vogel — primary (person)
- Watson — primary (person)
- Wells — primary (person)
- White — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)
- Wu — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-01** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-07** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-07** Motion Special Order until 3/8 (Delegate Kipke) Adopted
- **2023-03-08** Floor Amendment {
- **2023-03-08** Floor Amendment {
- **2023-03-08** Motion Laid Over (Delegate Kipke) Adopted
- **2023-03-09** Floor Amendment {
- **2023-03-09** Floor Amendment {
- **2023-03-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-13** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-04-06** Floor Amendment {
- **2023-04-06** Floor Amendment {
- **2023-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-08** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2023-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2023-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 151 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2fe5332d-9991-45ef-b678-41b9e73ac8ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).