CHAPTER NUMBER: 354
EMERGENCY BILL
File Code: Elections
- Sponsored By:
-
Chairman, Ways and Means Committee (By Request - Departmental
- Elections, State Board of)
- Entitled:
-
Election Law - Voter Registration
Providing that a Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot may be used as a
voter registration application; prohibiting a voter registration
volunteer from copying or collecting specified information contained
in a voter registration application; authorizing an election director
to remove from the voter registry a voter whose eligibility has been
successfully challenged; restoring to active status a voter who
completes and signs an absentee ballot application; etc.
House Action
- 2/8
- First Reading Ways and Means
- 3/1
- Hearing 3/17 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/24
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means
- 3/21
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Jennings)
- Motion vote previous question (Delegate Minnick) Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Jennings) Rejected (46-93)
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/23
- Third Reading Passed (120-16)
- 4/8
- Returned Passed
Senate Action
- 3/24
- First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 4/4
- Hearing 4/5 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/10
- Favorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 4/6
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Senator Jacobs) Rejected (14-31)
- Second Reading Passed
- 4/7
- Third Reading Passed (36-0)
Action after passage in House and Senate
- 5/2
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 354
Sponsored by:
- Ways & Means Comm., Chairman
- Departmental
- Elections, State Board of
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- BALLOTS
- ELECTIONS SUPERVISORS
- ELECTIONS, STATE BOARD OF
- FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
- PRIVACY
- REGISTRATION -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION
- SALARIES -see also- OVERTIME
- VOLUNTEERS -see also- MARYLAND SERVICE CORPS
- VOTING -see also- BALLOTS; ELECTIONS
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Election Law
- (
3-202 ,
3-205 ,
3-501 ,
3-503 ,
3-602
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments (Displayed in WordPerfect 8 Format):
House
- Number: 705662/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 24, 2006 at:
11:56 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 833528/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 24, 2006 at:
11:58 a.m. Status: Rejected
Senate
- Number: 353825/02 (PDF) Offered on: April 10, 2006 at:
5:48 p.m. Status: Rejected
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
House
- March 21, 2006: Floor Amendment (Jennings) Rejected (46-93)
- March 23, 2006: Third Reading Passed (120-16)
Senate
- April 6, 2006: Floor Amendment (Jacobs) {353825/2 Rejected (14-31)
- April 7, 2006: Third Reading Passed (36-0)
