---
type: "Bill"
title: "Baltimore County - Political Party Central Committee - Elections"
description: "Baltimore County - Political Party Central Committee - Elections"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 562"
citation: "Maryland HB 562 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Baltimore County Delegation"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f74ce4d6-b46c-4ac1-a50b-bb30a5db3b49"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0562?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "647df04a68fab35faa1ce897b3aaa5214bce54a8746d76e3410fcdc43572f079"
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 562 (2025) — Baltimore County - Political Party Central Committee - Elections

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Baltimore County - Political Party Central Committee - Elections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_413_hb0562t.pdf)
2. **First - Baltimore County - Republican Party Central Committee - Elections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0562f.pdf)
3. **Third - Baltimore County - Political Party Central Committee - Elections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0562t.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Baltimore County Delegation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-23** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 413 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f74ce4d6-b46c-4ac1-a50b-bb30a5db3b49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).