republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2024/hb-261.md

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Bill	Unemployment Insurance - Benefits - Election Judges	Unemployment Insurance - Benefits - Election Judges	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2024	HB 261	Maryland HB 261 (2024)	bill		enacted	Charkoudian Palakovich Carr Wilkins	3	12	2	2024-01-12	2024-05-09	openstates	ocd-bill/2dccc693-6147-4ac4-a9ca-b5e77130e68c	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0261?ys=2024RS&search=True	379f88239723865cbbc67c721c6c4160747e0e6ec94d96a5371de35e76d2b9e3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 261 (2024) — Unemployment Insurance - Benefits - Election Judges

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Unemployment Insurance - Benefits - Election Judges (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Unemployment Insurance - Benefits - Election Judges (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Unemployment Insurance - Benefits - Election Judges (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 138–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Charkoudian — primary (person)
• Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
• Wilkins — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-12 First Reading Economic Matters and Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2024-01-31 Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m. (Economic Matters)
• 2024-03-16 Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-16 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-16 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-03-18 Referred Finance referral-committee
• 2024-03-28 Favorable Report by Finance committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-29 Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-03 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-04-04 Returned Passed
• 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 617 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2dccc693-6147-4ac4-a9ca-b5e77130e68c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).