republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2024/sb-480.md

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Bill	Protecting Election Officials Act of 2024	Protecting Election Officials Act of 2024	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2024	SB 480	Maryland SB 480 (2024)	bill		enacted	Administration Bailey Beidle Brooks Charles Corderman Elfreth Gile Hettleman Kagan Lam M. Washington McKay President Rosapepe Salling Waldstreicher West Zucker	4	17	3	2024-01-22	2024-04-09	openstates	ocd-bill/da8e0380-1c60-4e6c-a7f2-64bb9277acbd	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0480?ys=2024RS&search=True	7bbd996eb44f122130b84abd70ac784604550d6af3487461802b0728c85666c2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 480 (2024) — Protecting Election Officials Act of 2024

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Protecting Election Officials Act of 2024 (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled - Protecting Election Officials Act of 2024 (committee substitute) — source
3. First - Protecting Election Officials Act of 2024 (committee substitute) — source
4. Third - Protecting Election Officials Act of 2024 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading (Emerg/Amend) — 113–23 (pass) · lower
• On third reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading (Emerg) — 47–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Administration — primary (person)
• Bailey — primary (person)
• Beidle — primary (person)
• Brooks — primary (person)
• Charles — primary (person)
• Corderman — primary (person)
• Elfreth — primary (person)
• Gile — primary (person)
• Hettleman — primary (person)
• Kagan — primary (person)
• Lam — primary (person)
• M. Washington — primary (person)
• McKay — primary (person)
• President — primary (person)
• Rosapepe — primary (person)
• Salling — primary (person)
• Waldstreicher — primary (person)
• West — primary (person)
• Zucker — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-22 First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment referral-committee
• 2024-01-25 Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2024-03-05 Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-06 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-06 Floor Amendment {
• 2024-03-06 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2024-03-08 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-03-11 Referred Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-03-19 Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2024-03-29 Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-29 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-29 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2024-04-02 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-04-04 Senate Concurs House Amendments
• 2024-04-04 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-04-04 Passed Enrolled
• 2024-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 20 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/da8e0380-1c60-4e6c-a7f2-64bb9277acbd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).