Common Ownership Communities - Candidate or Proposition Signs - Display Period
HB 363 modifies Maryland law to set minimum time periods for displaying election-related signs in common ownership communities (condos, co-ops, and HOAs). It requires that if a community restricts sign display time, the period must be at least 30 days before an election or vote on a proposition (or before early voting starts) and extend through 7 days after the election. The bill ensures residents can display candidate or proposition signs during these specified windows, overriding community rules that impose shorter periods. It directly affects homeowners in these communities by standardizing election sign access, while still allowing restrictions in common areas under federal/state/local law.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 16, 2025
Last action Feb 21, 2025
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This bill updates the display period for candidate and proposition signs in common ownership communities (cooperative housing corporations, condominiums, and homeowners associations). The changes standardize the sign display timeline to begin 30 days before early voting starts (or 30 days before the election if no early voting exists) and end 7 days after the election, ensuring consistent election access across different types of residential communities.
Scope change
The bill applies to three types of common ownership communities: cooperative housing corporations, condominiums, and homeowners associations. The scope remains focused on restricting covenants, declarations, and bylaws that limit political sign displays.
REQUIREMENT
The minimum display period for political signs was clarified and standardized across all community types to start 30 days before early voting (or 30 days before election if no early voting) and end 7 days after the election.
TECHNICAL
Added committee report and house action status information to the bill header, indicating favorable committee review and adoption on February 18, 2025.
Reordered and renumbered sections to align with standard legislative formatting, moving definitions before substantive provisions and adjusting chapter numbering.
Floor votes · House of Delegates Feb 20, 2025
How they voted
134–0
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 137
Feb 20, 2025
D
Democratic98
97% Yea
R
Republican39
97% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
6
Key actions
3
Committee
4
Feb 21, 2025
Committee
Referred Judicial Proceedings
upper
Feb 20, 2025
Lower · Passed
Third Reading Passed
lower
Feb 18, 2025
Lower · Passed
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed
lower
Feb 17, 2025
Lower · Passed
Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation
lower
Jan 16, 2025
Committee
First Reading Environment and Transportation
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Marvin Holmes
DDemocratic
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