---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Postelection Tabulation Audits - Risk-Limiting Audits"
description: "Election Law - Postelection Tabulation Audits - Risk-Limiting Audits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 426"
citation: "Maryland HB 426 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kaiser", "Wilkins"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/657a9143-84fc-4911-8f4f-48d563c97b3e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0426?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "58c76796e9601f484729bd3205323d271aa6f4d5b407e81926656e7c1b160901"
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 426 (2025) — Election Law - Postelection Tabulation Audits - Risk-Limiting Audits

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Election Law - Postelection Tabulation Audits - Risk-Limiting Audits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_321_hb0426e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Election Law - Postelection Tabulation Audits - Risk-Limiting Audits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0426e.pdf)
3. **First - Election Law - Postelection Tabulation Audits - Risk-Limiting Audits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0426f.pdf)
4. **Third - Election Law - Postelection Tabulation Audits - Risk-Limiting Audits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0426t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **104–25** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **127–11** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Wilkins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-18** Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-05** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-05** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 321 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/657a9143-84fc-4911-8f4f-48d563c97b3e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).