---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Board of Elections - Municipal Elections - Publication of Results on Website"
description: "State Board of Elections - Municipal Elections - Publication of Results on Website"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 509"
citation: "Maryland HB 509 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arentz", "Boafo", "Buckel", "Chisholm", "Ciliberti", "Crutchfield", "Edelson", "Embry", "Griffith", "Hartman", "Hornberger", "Hutchinson", "J. Long", "Jacobs", "Kaiser", "McCaskill", "McComas", "Miller", "Nawrocki", "Otto", "Pippy", "Rose", "Schmidt", "T. Morgan", "Taveras", "Tomlinson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-01"
last_action: "2023-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75f87b8c-a426-4277-b047-918026d43324"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0509?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "a1f7ff8c048e4994baa00a431743885dfc0edbe655f0aaa510b564607a7c71ed"
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 509 (2023) — State Board of Elections - Municipal Elections - Publication of Results on Website

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Board of Elections - Municipal Elections - Publication of Results on Website** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_162_hb0509t.pdf)
2. **First - State Board of Elections - Municipal Elections - Publication of Results on Website** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0509f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Board of Elections - Municipal Elections - Publication of Results on Website** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0509t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Arentz — primary (person)
- Boafo — primary (person)
- Buckel — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Ciliberti — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- Edelson — primary (person)
- Embry — primary (person)
- Griffith — primary (person)
- Hartman — primary (person)
- Hornberger — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- J. Long — primary (person)
- Jacobs — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- McCaskill — primary (person)
- McComas — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Nawrocki — primary (person)
- Otto — primary (person)
- Pippy — primary (person)
- Rose — primary (person)
- Schmidt — primary (person)
- T. Morgan — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Tomlinson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-01** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-20** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-04** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2023-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 162 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/75f87b8c-a426-4277-b047-918026d43324`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).