File Code: Elections
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 292  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Delegates Cardin, Ali, Elmore, Frick, Rice, Ross, Walker, and Ivey
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Election Law - Voter Registration and Nomination by Petition - Requirements
 
Altering the qualifications for voter registration to allow an
individual who is at least 16 years old to register to vote;
specifying that an individual under the age of 18 years may vote in
specified primary elections but may not vote in any other elections;
altering the deadline to request a change of party affiliation to
coincide with the deadline for registering to vote for an election;
altering the date on which the number of petition signatures required
for a candidate to be nominated by petition is determined; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occurring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
House Action
- 1/22
 - First Reading Ways and Means
 - 2/3
 - Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/27
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means
 - 3/24
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Special Order next session (Delegate O'Donnell)  Adopted
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate O'Donnell) Rejected  (41-89)
 -      Floor Amendment (Delegate O'Donnell) Rejected  (34-102)
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/25
 - Motion vote previous question  (Delegate Cane) Adopted
 -      Third Reading Passed (97-43)
 - 4/8
 - Returned Passed
 
Senate Action
- 3/27
 - First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
 - 4/10
 - Favorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
 - 4/6
 - Favorable Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed
 - 4/7
 - Special Order later today (Senator Kittleman)  Adopted
 -      Third Reading Passed (41-5)
 
Action after passage in House  and Senate
- 5/4
 - Approved by the Governor
 -      - Chapter 271
 
Sponsored by:
- Delegate Jon S. Cardin, District 11
 - Delegate Saqib Ali, District 39
 - Delegate D. Page Elmore, District 38A
 - Delegate C. William Frick, District 16
 - Delegate Jolene Ivey, District 47
 - Delegate Craig L. Rice, District 15
 - Delegate Justin D. Ross, District 22
 - Delegate Jay Walker, District 26
 
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Elections -see also- Ballots; Camp Financ; Pol Cands; Voting
 - Elections Supervisors
 - Minors -see also- Age of Majority; Youth
 - Petitions
 - Political Candidates
 - Political Parties
 - Registration -see also- Motor Vehicle Registration
 - Signatures
 - Voting -see also- Ballots; Elections
 
Bill affects the following Statutes:
-   Election Law
 - (
 3-102 ,
 3-302 ,
 3-303 ,
 5-703 
)
 
All documents except Roll Call Votes are
displayed in PDF format:
- Bill Text:
 First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
 - Fiscal and Policy Note:
 Available
 - Amendments:
 House 
- Number: 673127/02     Offered on: March 27, 2010      at:
4:19 p.m.      Status: Rejected
 - Number: 725165/01     Offered on: March 27, 2010      at:
12:47 p.m.     Status: Adopted
 - Number: 913329/01     Offered on: March 27, 2010      at:
4:10 p.m.      Status: Rejected
 
- 
Committee Votes :
 
 House 
- Ways and Means
 
Senate
- Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
 House 
- March 24, 2010: Floor Amendment (ODonnell) {913329/1 Rejected  (41-89)
 - March 24, 2010: Floor Amendment (ODonnell) {673127/2 Rejected  (34-102)
 - March 25, 2010: Third Reading Passed  (97-43)
 
Senate
- April 7, 2010: Third Reading Passed  (41-5)