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type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Campaign Material - Disclosure of the Use of Bots"
description: "Election Law - Campaign Material - Disclosure of the Use of Bots"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 465"
citation: "Maryland HB 465 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cain", "Rosenberg"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-24"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36b4ad3d-a4a8-4c2a-a366-9ee8720bf7f7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0465?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "cbbb576913ac88cb3e7c6a3ba11602ddd862ce1918642b9540e1720e2b5c2fab"
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 465 (2020) — Election Law - Campaign Material - Disclosure of the Use of Bots
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Election Law - Campaign Material - Disclosure of the Use of Bots** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_216_hb0465t.pdf)
2. **First - Election Law - Campaign Material - Disclosure of the Use of Bots** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0465f.pdf)
3. **Third - Election Law - Campaign Material - Disclosure of the Use of Bots** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0465t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1370** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **450** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Cain — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-24** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-28** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-02-28** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-28** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-04** Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-15** Hearing 3/16 at 11:00 a.m.
- **2020-03-17** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Griffith) Adopted
- **2020-03-17** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Second Reading Passed
- **2020-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 216 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/36b4ad3d-a4a8-4c2a-a366-9ee8720bf7f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).