← All legislation

2026 Regular Session

SB73

Election Law - Polling Place Procedures - Voting by Elderly Voters and Voters With Disabilities (Accessible and Expedited Voting Act of Maryland)

Earlier-session bill · introduced 2025

Requiring the State Board of Elections, as part of the training program for election judges, to include instruction on best practices for assisting elderly voters and voters with disabilities; requiring the Board to establish guidelines for the local boards of election to implement a process to accommodate and expedite voting for elderly voters and voters with disabilities at each early voting center and polling place; requiring the local boards to implement the guidelines and collect feedback on the process; etc.

Legislative progress

i

This summary includes only completed milestones supported by recorded actions. It does not predict the next step, and it preserves later committee reassignments, concurrence, conference, veto, and approval actions when they occur.

Introduced in Senate January 14, 2026

Committee referrals

Instrument history

i

This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.

  1. Senate Hearing 2/11 at 2:00 p.m.
  2. Senate Hearing canceled
  3. Senate Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
  4. Senate First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment
  5. Senate Pre-filed
Source provenance