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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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---
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Election Law - Contested Elections"
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description: "Election Law - Contested Elections"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
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legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
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session: "2022"
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identifier: "HB 291"
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citation: "Maryland HB 291 (2022)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Kaiser"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 3
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first_action: "2022-01-17"
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last_action: "2022-05-29"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0ce007a-5c92-43fd-9643-d704aa0a8914"
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source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0291?ys=2022RS&search=True"
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source_hash: "0399013ba4f69aa09c325186f30912c7d6b81c4363f5d9a553f38766c5f8a9f3"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
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---
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# Maryland HB 291 (2022) — Election Law - Contested Elections
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Chapter - Election Law - Contested Elections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_624_hb0291e.pdf)
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2. **Enrolled - Election Law - Contested Elections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0291e.pdf)
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3. **First - Election Law - Contested Elections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0291f.pdf)
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4. **Third - Election Law - Contested Elections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0291t.pdf)
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## Votes
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- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **114–17** (pass) · lower
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- On Third Reading (Amend) — **43–0** (pass) · upper
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- On Third Reading — **131–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Kaiser — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-01-17** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
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- **2022-01-19** Hearing 2/01 at 1:00 p.m.
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- **2022-02-21** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-02-22** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-02-22** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
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- **2022-02-24** Third Reading Passed `passage`
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- **2022-02-25** Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
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- **2022-04-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-04-09** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-04-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
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- **2022-04-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
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- **2022-04-11** House Concurs Senate Amendments
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- **2022-04-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
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- **2022-04-11** Passed Enrolled
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- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 624 `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e0ce007a-5c92-43fd-9643-d704aa0a8914`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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