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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law - Notice to Permanent Absentee Voters"
description: "Election Law - Notice to Permanent Absentee Voters"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 199"
citation: "Maryland HB 199 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-09-18"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9444f1a6-2791-4007-bed3-00a01a9323ef"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0199?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "0a215009077002e15c73d1f38cead5771edffe9653c1c919b2915ae54b317b22"
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 199 (2025) — Election Law - Notice to Permanent Absentee Voters
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Election Law - Notice to Permanent Absentee Voters** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_280_hb0199t.pdf)
2. **First - Election Law - Notice to Permanent Absentee Voters** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0199f.pdf)
3. **Third - Election Law - Notice to Permanent Absentee Voters** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0199t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **10433** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **3610** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Chair, Ways and Means Committee — primary (organization)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-09-18** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08** Hearing 1/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-10** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-14** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 280 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9444f1a6-2791-4007-bed3-00a01a9323ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).