---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Provisional Ballots - Nonpartisan Board of Education Contests"
description: "Election Law - Provisional Ballots - Nonpartisan Board of Education Contests"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 839"
citation: "Maryland HB 839 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roberson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b73041f3-4e39-4f31-9e4f-1b7419fe665c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0839?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "db801d62028263c36722985835cfd3eddbb8fca7874644bccc95424336fdb774"
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 839 (2025) — Election Law - Provisional Ballots - Nonpartisan Board of Education Contests

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Election Law - Provisional Ballots - Nonpartisan Board of Education Contests** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_391_hb0839t.pdf)
2. **First - Election Law - Provisional Ballots - Nonpartisan Board of Education Contests** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0839f.pdf)
3. **Third - Election Law - Provisional Ballots - Nonpartisan Board of Education Contests** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0839t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–1** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **128–12** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Roberson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-04** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-05** 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 Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 391 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b73041f3-4e39-4f31-9e4f-1b7419fe665c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).