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type: "Bill"
title: "Public Financing Act - Matching Fund Revisions (Maryland Fair Elections Act)"
description: "Public Financing Act - Matching Fund Revisions (Maryland Fair Elections Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 415"
citation: "Maryland SB 415 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pinsky"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-20"
last_action: "2021-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5dfef4f6-58f9-4b7e-8991-1e164346a6d4"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0415?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "0ccb1c9952344df50227dfad926eba95c32afa7330e1402dd7f0124f8bd359f1"
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 SB 415 (2021) — Public Financing Act - Matching Fund Revisions (Maryland Fair Elections Act)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Public Financing Act - Matching Fund Revisions (Maryland Fair Elections Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_733_sb0415e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Public Financing Act - Matching Fund Revisions (Maryland Fair Elections Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0415e.pdf)
3. **First - Public Financing Act - Matching Fund Revisions (Maryland Fair Elections Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0415f.pdf)
4. **Third - Public Financing Act - Matching Fund Revisions (Maryland Fair Elections Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0415t.pdf)
## Votes
- On third reading — **433** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **9838** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **396** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Pinsky — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs and Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-02** Hearing 2/18 at 11:00 a.m. (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs)
- **2021-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18** Motion Laid Over (Senator Cassilly) Adopted
- **2021-03-19** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-19** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-19** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-20** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-20** Hearing 3/30 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-04-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-08** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-08** Motion Special Order until Next Session (Delegate Kipke) Adopted
- **2021-04-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-12** Senate Concurs House Amendments
- **2021-04-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-12** Passed Enrolled
- **2021-05-30** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 733 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5dfef4f6-58f9-4b7e-8991-1e164346a6d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).