---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment Insurance - Benefits - Election Judges"
description: "Unemployment Insurance - Benefits - Election Judges"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 261"
citation: "Maryland HB 261 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charkoudian", "Palakovich Carr", "Wilkins"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-12"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2dccc693-6147-4ac4-a9ca-b5e77130e68c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0261?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "379f88239723865cbbc67c721c6c4160747e0e6ec94d96a5371de35e76d2b9e3"
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 261 (2024) — Unemployment Insurance - Benefits - Election Judges

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Unemployment Insurance - Benefits - Election Judges** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_617_hb0261t.pdf)
2. **First - Unemployment Insurance - Benefits - Election Judges** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0261f.pdf)
3. **Third - Unemployment Insurance - Benefits - Election Judges** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0261t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
- Wilkins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-12** First Reading Economic Matters and Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m. (Economic Matters)
- **2024-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-28** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 617 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2dccc693-6147-4ac4-a9ca-b5e77130e68c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).