republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2018/hb-1278.md

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Bill	Election Law - Postelection Tabulation Audit	Election Law - Postelection Tabulation Audit	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2018	HB 1278	Maryland HB 1278 (2018)	bill	Elections Auditors and Audits Ballots Elections Elections State Board of Electronic Government Records Reports Rules and Regulations Time Voting	enacted	Kaiser	1	16	3	2018-02-09	2018-05-08	openstates	ocd-bill/d05693b3-2b2c-475a-ae32-91cce178d73c	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1278&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs	cb208b326d18714a118089c3029f6ba0631a7eb15543dd55c55125f551e7b535	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 1278 (2018) — Election Law - Postelection Tabulation Audit

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 134–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 46–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — 136–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kaiser — primary (person)
• A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
• Ali — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-09 First Reading Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2018-02-12 Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-03-08 Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-15 Favorable with Amendments {955868/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-15 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2018-03-16 Third Reading Passed (134-0) passage
• 2018-03-16 First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2018-03-19 Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-04-02 Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-04-03 Favorable with Amendments {754038/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-04-03 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2018-04-04 Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) passage
• 2018-04-05 House Concur - Senate Amendments
• 2018-04-05 Third Reading Passed (136-0) passage
• 2018-04-05 Passed Enrolled
• 2018-05-08 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 523 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d05693b3-2b2c-475a-ae32-91cce178d73c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).