---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Postelection Procedures"
description: "Election Law - Postelection Procedures"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 471"
citation: "Maryland HB 471 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fair", "Pruski"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-01-22"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5eb16755-fed6-4bdb-9b8b-bc21bb58e35e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0471?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "88bf09d56b604c60ce4e6ecdd52238b82bf0ecd8ab1587ac53db41c804b6f9b6"
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 471 (2024) — Election Law - Postelection Procedures

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Election Law - Postelection Procedures** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_353_hb0471t.pdf)
2. **First - Election Law - Postelection Procedures** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0471f.pdf)
3. **Third - Election Law - Postelection Procedures** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0471t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Fair — primary (person)
- Pruski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-22** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-23** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-14** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 353 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5eb16755-fed6-4bdb-9b8b-bc21bb58e35e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).