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HOUSE BILL 683
G1 EMERGENCY BILL 2lr1561
CF SB 500
By: Delegates Saab, Chisholm, Howard, Kipke, and Munoz
Introduced and read first time: January 31, 2022
Assigned to: Ways and Means
Committee Report: Favorable
House action: Adopted
Read second time: March 9, 2022
CHAPTER ______
AN ACT concerning 1
Anne Arundel County – Republican Party Central Committee – Elections 2
FOR the purpose of altering the number of members elected from each councilmanic district 3
of Anne Arundel County to the Anne Arundel County Republican Party Central 4
Committee; and generally relating to the Anne Arundel County Republican Party 5
Central Committee. 6
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 7
Article – Election Law 8
Section 4–203(a) 9
Annotated Code of Maryland 10
(2017 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement) 11
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 12
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 13
Article – Election Law 14
4–203. 15
(a) (1) In Anne Arundel County, the members of the Democratic Party Central 16
Committee for the county shall be elected as follows: 17
(i) three members shall be elected from each legislative district 18
wholly contained within Anne Arundel County; and 19 2 HOUSE BILL 683
(ii) one member shall be elected from that portion within Anne 1
Arundel County of any legislative district that is partially contained within Anne Arundel 2
County. 3
(2) For the Anne Arundel County Republican Party Central Committee: 4
(i) [three] TWO members shall be elected from each councilmanic 5
district of Anne Arundel County; and 6
(ii) one member shall be elected from Anne Arundel County at large. 7
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is an emergency 8
measure, is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health or safety, has 9
been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three–fifths of all the members elected to 10
each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, and shall take effect from the date it is 11
enacted. 12
Approved:
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Governor.
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Speaker of the House of Delegates.
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President of the Senate.