Maryland legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Maryland HB115: Election Law - Individuals Released From State Correctional Facilities - Automatic Restoration of Voter Registration
Status: Signed into law, May 12, 2026
Requiring by January 1, 2028, the State Board of Elections and the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to jointly develop and implement certain procedures and a certain electronic transmission process for the restoration of voter registration for individuals released from incarceration at a State correctional facility; requiring the Department to transmit a list that includes the name and certain other information for individuals released from incarceration to the State Board of Elections on a monthly basis; etc.
What the bill says
An act concerning Election Law - Individuals Released From State Correctional Facilities - Automatic Restoration of Voter Registration FOR the purpose of requiring, on or before a certain date, the State Board of Elections and the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to jointly develop and implement certain procedures and a certain electronic transmission process for the restoration of voter registration for individuals released from incarceration at a State correctional facility…
From the enrolled text, May 18, 2026:
AN ACT concerning Election Law - Individuals Released From State Correctional Facilities - Automatic Restoration of Voter Registration FOR the purpose of requiring, on or before a certain date, the State Board of Elections and the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to jointly develop and implement certain procedures and a certain electronic transmission process for the restoration of voter registration for individuals released from incarceration at a State correctional facility; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to transmit a certain list of individuals released from incarceration at a State correctional facility to the State Board of Elections in a certain manner; requiring the State Board to automatically promptly restore the voter registration of certain individuals released from State correctional facilities who were registered to vote in the State before being incarcerated; prohibiting certain information regarding voters registered through the Department the voter registration agency through which a formerly incarcerated voter has registered from being disclosed under the Public Information Act to the public; and generally relating to automatic restoration of voter registration for individuals released from State correctional facilities. BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments, Article - Correctional Services Section 1-101(a), (f), and (q) and 2-601 Annotated Code of Maryland (2025 Replacement Volume) BY adding to Article - Election Law Section 3-203.1 Annotated Code of …