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HOUSE BILL 322
G1 EMERGENCY BILL 5lr1711
CF SB 88
By: Delegate Wims
Introduced and read first time: January 10, 2025
Assigned to: Ways and Means
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning 1
Election Law – State Administrator of Elections – Municipal Elections 2
FOR the purpose of authorizing the State Administrator of Elections to enter into 3
memoranda of understanding with municipalities that allow the State 4
Administrator to work collaboratively with a municipality to support the 5
administration of the municipality’s elections; and generally relating to the 6
administration of municipal elections. 7
BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments, 8
Article – Election Law 9
Section 2–103(a) 10
Annotated Code of Maryland 11
(2022 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 12
BY adding to 13
Article – Election Law 14
Section 2–103(e) 15
Annotated Code of Maryland 16
(2022 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 17
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 18
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 19
Article – Election Law 20
2–103. 21
(a) There is a State Administrator of Elections. 22
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(E) THE STATE ADMINISTRATOR MAY ENT ER INTO A MEMORANDUM OF 1
UNDERSTANDING WITH A MUNICIPALITY, THE TERMS OF WHICH S HALL ALLOW THE 2
ADMINISTRATOR TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY WITH THE MUNICIPALITY TO 3
SUPPORT THE ADMINIST RATION OF THE MUNICI PALITY’S ELECTIONS. 4
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is an emergency 5
measure, is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health or safety, has 6
been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three–fifths of all the members elected to 7
each of the two Houses of the General Assembly, and shall take effect from the date it is 8
enacted. 9