republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2018/sb-730.md

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Bill	Local Government - Municipal Elections - No-Excuse Absentee Voting	Local Government - Municipal Elections - No-Excuse Absentee Voting	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2018	SB 730	Maryland SB 730 (2018)	bill	Municipalities Elections Ballots Municipal Corporations Voting	enacted	Smith	1	19	4	2018-02-05	2018-05-15	openstates	ocd-bill/628fd9e5-d52a-4cca-b2a5-16cf8af9a40f	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB730&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs	f15480896a27e0b4536a5f13545b8b6550287ab64968fea37e9473382abde385	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 730 (2018) — Local Government - Municipal Elections - No-Excuse Absentee Voting

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 — 48–86 (fail) · lower
• On Third Reading — 133–1 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 38–7 (pass) · upper
• Floor amendment Ready /863025/1 — 16–26 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Smith — primary (person)
• Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
• Young — cosponsor (person)
• Zucker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-05 First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2018-02-05 Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-03-12 Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-13 Favorable committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-13 Special Order until later today (Senator Ready) Adopted
• 2018-03-13 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-13 Floor Amendment {863025/1 (Senator Ready) Rejected (16-26) amendment-failure
• 2018-03-13 Second Reading Passed
• 2018-03-15 Third Reading Passed (38-7) passage
• 2018-03-15 First Reading Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2018-03-19 Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-03-29 Favorable Report by Ways and Means committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-29 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-29 Second Reading Passed
• 2018-03-30 Special Order until later this session (Delegate B. Barnes) Adopted
• 2018-03-30 Floor Amendment {833222/1 (Delegate Kipke) Rejected (48-86) amendment-failure
• 2018-03-30 Third Reading Passed (133-1) passage
• 2018-04-02 Returned Passed
• 2018-05-15 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 745 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/628fd9e5-d52a-4cca-b2a5-16cf8af9a40f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).