CHAPTER NUMBER: 4
EMERGENCY BILL
File Code: Elections
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 675
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Hollinger, Astle, Britt,
Conway, Currie, DeGrange, Della, Dyson, Exum, Forehand, Frosh,
Garagiola, Giannetti, Gladden, Green, Grosfeld, Hogan, Hughes, Jimeno,
Jones, Kasemeyer, Kelley, Klausmeier, Kramer, Lawlah, McFadden,
Middleton, Miller, Pinsky, Ruben, Stone, and Teitelbaum
- Entitled:
-
Elections - State
Board of Elections - Membership
Appointment Process and Authority over the State Administrator
Altering the appointment process for the members of the State Board of
Elections; requiring the Governor to appoint to the State Board an
individual whose name is submitted by the State Central Committee of
the principal political party entitled to the appointment; providing
that the appointment of the State Administrator of Elections by the
State Board is subject to the advice and consent of the Senate of
Maryland; etc.
Senate Action
- 2/4
- First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 2/9
- Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/15
- Hearing cancelled
- Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/11
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 3/14
- Favorable with Amendments
- Laid Over (Senator Dyson) Adopted
- 3/15
- Favorable with Amendments
- Special Order 3/16 (Senator Mooney) Adopted
- Motion Reconsider Special Order until 3/16 (Senator Dyson) Adopted
- Committee Amendment Withdrawn
- Substitute Committee Amendment (Education Health and Environmental Affairs)
- Special Order 3/16 (Senator Mooney) Adopted
- 3/16
- Favorable with Amendments
- Substitute Committee Amendment Adopted
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Senator Jacobs) Rejected (14-32)
- Floor Amendment (Senator Mooney) Rejected (15-31)
- Floor Amendment (Senator Pipkin) Rejected (15-31)
- Floor Amendment (Senator Pipkin) Rejected (15-30)
- Floor Amendment (Senator Pipkin) Rejected (14-32)
- Floor Amendment (Senator Pipkin) Rejected (14-32)
- Floor Amendment (Senator Pipkin) Rejected (15-31)
- Floor Amendment (Senator Brinkley) Rejected (17-29)
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/18
- Third Reading Passed (32-15)
- 4/1
- Returned Passed
House Action
- 3/21
- First Reading Ways and Means
- 3/28
- Hearing 3/31 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/31
- Hearing cancelled
- Favorable Report by Ways and Means
- 3/29
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Motion Special Order 4/1 (Delegate O'Donnell) Rejected (43-89)
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Haddaway)
- Motion vote previous question (Delegate Moe) Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Haddaway) Rejected (47-87)
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Bates)
- Motion Laid Over (Delegate Bates)
- Motion to keep bill & Amendments before House (Delegate Gordon) Adopted (90-47)
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Bates) Rejected (43-91)
- Floor Amendment (Delegate O'Donnell)
- Motion vote previous question (Delegate Moe) Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Delegate O'Donnell) Rejected (45-91)
- Second Reading Passed
- 3/30
- Floor Amendment (Delegate O'Donnell)
- Motion vote previous question (Delegate Moe) Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Delegate O'Donnell) Rejected (44-88)
- Third Reading Passed (90-42)
- 4/9
- Motion vote previous question (Delegate Moe) Adopted
Action after passage in Senate and House
- 4/11
- Governor vetoed - Policy
- Veto not sustained in Senate (32-15)
- Veto not sustained in House (92-45)
- Became Law per Maryland Constitution, Chapter 4
Sponsored by:
- Senator Paula C. Hollinger, District 11
- Senator John C. Astle, District 30
- Senator Gwendolyn Britt, District 47
- Senator Joan Carter Conway, District 43
- Senator Ulysses Currie, District 25
- Senator James E. DeGrange, Sr., District 32
- Senator George W. Della, Jr., District 46
- Senator Roy P. Dyson, District 29
- Senator Nathaniel Exum, District 24
- Senator Jennie M. Forehand, District 17
- Senator Brian E. Frosh, District 16
- Senator Rob Garagiola, District 15
- Senator John A. Giannetti, Jr., District 21
- Senator Lisa A. Gladden, District 41
- Senator Leo E. Green, District 23
- Senator Sharon M. Grosfeld, District 18
- Senator Patrick J. Hogan, District 39
- Senator Ralph M. Hughes, District 40
- Senator Philip C. Jimeno, District 31
- Senator Verna L. Jones, District 44
- Senator Edward J. Kasemeyer, District 12
- Senator Delores G. Kelley, District 10
- Senator Katherine Klausmeier, District 8
- Senator Rona E. Kramer, District 14
- Senator Gloria Lawlah, District 26
- Senator Nathaniel J. McFadden, District 45
- Senator Thomas M. Middleton, District 28
- Senator Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., District 27
- Senator Paul G. Pinsky, District 22
- Senator Ida G. Ruben, District 20
- Senator Norman R. Stone, Jr., District 6
- Senator Leonard H. Teitelbaum, District 19
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES -see also- ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT
- COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- ELECTIONS -see also- BALLOTS; CAMP FINANC; POL CANDS; VOTING
- ELECTIONS, STATE BOARD OF
- ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT
- GENERAL ASSEMBLY -see also- AELR CMTE; LEG POLICY COMMITTEE.
- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- POLITICAL PARTIES
- PUBLICATIONS -see also- MARYLAND REGISTER
- PUBLIC INFORMATION
- PUBLIC OFFICIALS -see also- ATTY GEN; COMP; CO ADMIN; etc
- RECORDS -see also- LAND RECORDS; VITAL RECORDS
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Election Law
- (
2-101 ,
2-103
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments (Displayed in WordPerfect 8 Format):
Senate
- Number: 153722/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 16, 2005 at:
11:36 a.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 283121/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 16, 2005 at:
11:28 a.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 353522/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 16, 2005 at:
11:40 a.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 414937/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 16, 2005 at:
11:04 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 483020/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 16, 2005 at:
11:31 a.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 503426/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 16, 2005 at:
11:18 a.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 543026/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 16, 2005 at:
11:44 a.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 564733/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 15, 2005 at:
11:34 a.m. Status: Withdrawn
- Number: 753728/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 16, 2005 at:
11:49 a.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 823421/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 16, 2005 at:
11:46 a.m. Status: Rejected
House
- Number: 123521/01 (PDF) Offered on: April 1, 2005 at:
12:21 p.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 253025/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 31, 2005 at:
11:00 a.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 523724/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 31, 2005 at:
10:55 a.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 963326/02 (PDF) Offered on: March 31, 2005 at:
10:48 a.m. Status: Rejected
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
Senate
- March 16, 2005: Floor Amendment (Jacobs) {503426/1 Rejected (14-32)
- March 16, 2005: Floor Amendment (Mooney) {283121/1 Rejected (14-32)
- March 16, 2005: Floor Amendment (Pipkin) {483020/1 Rejected (15-31)
- March 16, 2005: Floor Amendment (Pipkin) {153722/1 Rejected (15-30)
- March 16, 2005: Floor Amendment (Pipkin) {353522/1 Rejected (14-32)
- March 16, 2005: Floor Amendment (Pipkin) {543026/1 Rejected (14-32)
- March 16, 2005: Floor Amendment (Pipkin) {823421/1 Rejected (15-31)
- March 16, 2005: Floor Amendment (Brinkley) {753728/1 Rejected (17-29)
- March 18, 2005: Third Reading Passed (32-15)
House
- March 29, 2005: Motion Special Order until 4/1 (ODonnell) Rejected (43-89)
- March 29, 2005: Floor Amendment (Haddaway) Rejected (47-87)
- March 29, 2005: Motion to keep bill & Amendments before House (Gordon) Adopted (90-47)
- March 29, 2005: Floor Amendment (Bates) Rejected (43-91)
- March 29, 2005: Floor Amendment (ODonnell) Rejected (45-91)
- March 30, 2005: Floor Amendment (ODonnell) Rejected (44-88)
- March 30, 2005: Third Reading Passed (90-42)