CHAPTER NUMBER: 61
EMERGENCY BILL
File Code: Elections
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 712
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Patterson,
Hixson, Cardin, King,
McKee, Ross, Bozman, C. Davis, Goodwin, Gordon, Healey, Heller,
Howard, Kaiser, Marriott, Ramirez,
Rosenberg, and Conroy
- Entitled:
-
Election Law - Voter Bill of Rights
Requiring local boards of elections to establish specified precincts
at specified institutions of higher education; requiring the
institutions to provide specified facilities and services to the local
board; requiring that local boards, when establishing early voting
polling places, select sites that are consistent with specified
criteria established by the State Board of Elections; requiring
specified polling places to be equipped with a specified computer
device; etc.
House Action
- 2/10
- First Reading Ways and Means
- 2/15
- Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/13
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means
- 3/14
- Favorable with Amendments
- Special Order 3/16 (Delegate Hixson) Adopted
- 3/16
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Floor Committee Amendment
- Special Order 3/17 (Delegate O'Donnell) Adopted
- 3/17
- Floor Committee Amendment Adopted
- Floor Committee Amendment Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Delegate O'Donnell) Rejected (50-85)
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/19
- Motion vote previous question (Delegate Minnick) Adopted
- Third Reading Passed (96-43)
- 3/27
- House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
- House Requests Senate Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Delegates Hixson, Patterson, and Ross
- 3/29
- Motion vote previous question (Delegate Zirkin) Adopted
- Conference Committee Report Adopted (94-43)
- Third Reading Passed (94-43)
- Passed Enrolled
- 4/5
- Motion vote previous question (Delegate Moe) Adopted
Senate Action
- 3/21
- First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 3/26
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Favorable with Amendments
- Laid Over (Senator Stoltzfus) Adopted
- 3/27
- Favorable with Amendments
- Committee Amendment Adopted
- Special Order later today (Senator Kittleman) Adopted
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/28
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (30-17)
- 3/29
- Senate Refuses to Recede
- Conference Committee Appointed ...
- Senators Hollinger, Dyson, and Conway
- Motion Special Order 4/3 (Senator Harris) Rejected (17-30)
- Conference Committee Report Adopted (28-4)
- Third Reading Passed (28-3)
Action after passage in House and Senate
- 4/7
- Governor vetoed - Policy
- 4/8
- Veto overridden in House (93-45)
- 4/10
- Veto overridden in Senate (30-17)
- Became Law per Maryland Constitution, Chapter 61
Sponsored by:
- Delegate Obie Patterson, District 26
- Delegate K. Bennett Bozman, District 38B
- Delegate Jon S. Cardin, District 11
- Delegate Mary A. Conroy, District 23A
- Delegate Clarence Davis, District 45
- Delegate Marshall T. Goodwin, District 40
- Delegate Michael R. Gordon, District 17
- Delegate Anne Healey, District 22
- Delegate Henry B. Heller, District 19
- Delegate Sheila E. Hixson, District 20
- Delegate Carolyn J. B. Howard, District 24
- Delegate Anne R. Kaiser, District 14
- Delegate Nancy J. King, District 39
- Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, District 40
- Delegate Robert A. McKee, District 2A
- Delegate Victor R. Ramirez, District 47
- Delegate Samuel I. Rosenberg, District 41
- Delegate Justin D. Ross, District 22
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY
- APPROPRIATIONS
- ASSISTED LIVING -see also- GROUP HOMES
- ATTORNEY GENERAL
- BALTIMORE CITY
- BALTIMORE COUNTY
- BOUNDARIES
- CHARLES COUNTY
- CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
- COMPUTERS -see also- ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ELECTRONIC GOVMNT.
- COUNTIES -see also- CHARTERED COUNTIES; CODE COUNTIES
- ELECTIONS -see also- BALLOTS; CAMP FINANC; POL CANDS; VOTING
- ELECTIONS SUPERVISORS
- ELECTIONS, STATE BOARD OF
- ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT
- EQUIPMENT -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE EQUIPMENT
- GOVERNOR
- HARFORD COUNTY
- HIGHER EDUCATION -see also- COMM COLLEGES; MED SCHOOLS; etc.
- HOWARD COUNTY
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT MANDATES
- MONTGOMERY COUNTY
- NOTICES
- NURSING HOMES -see also- CONTINUING CARE; LONG TERM CARE
- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
- PUBLIC INFORMATION
- RECORDS -see also- LAND RECORDS; VITAL RECORDS
- REGISTRATION -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION
- REPORTS
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- STATE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES
- SUNSET
- VOTING -see also- BALLOTS; ELECTIONS
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Election Law
- (
2-102 ,
2-103 ,
2-202 ,
2-202.1 ,
2-206 ,
2-301 ,
2-303 ,
3-501 ,
10-301.1 ,
10-302
)
- 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: 155669/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 17, 2006 at:
11:24 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 465167/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 17, 2006 at:
11:29 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 505160/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 16, 2006 at:
10:19 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 583826/01 (PDF) Offered on: April 4, 2006 at:
4:53 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 923027/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 17, 2006 at:
11:30 a.m. Status: Rejected
Senate
- Number: 514030/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 29, 2006 at:
11:04 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Conference Committee Documents (Displayed in WordPerfect 8 Format):
- Report Number: 563423/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 31, 2006 at:
3:09 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Amendment Number: 583826/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 31, 2006 at:
12:48 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
House
- March 17, 2006: Floor Amendment (ODonnell) {923027/1 Rejected (50-85)
- March 19, 2006: Third Reading Passed (96-43)
- March 29, 2006: Conference Committee Report Adopted (94-43)
- March 29, 2006: Third Reading Passed (94-43)
Senate
- March 28, 2006: Third Reading Passed (30-17)
- March 29, 2006: Motion Special Order until 4/3 (Harris) Rejected (17-30)
- March 29, 2006: Conference Committee Report {563423/1 Adopted (28-4)
- March 29, 2006: Third Reading Passed (29-3)
- April 6, 2006: Motion limit debate (McFadden) Adopted (32-15)
