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+type: "Bill"
+title: "State Retirement and Pension System - Cost-of-Living Adjustments - Clarification"
+description: "State Retirement and Pension System - Cost-of-Living Adjustments - Clarification"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 724"
+citation: "Maryland SB 724 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lewis Young"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-02-06"
+last_action: "2026-04-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d72e7777-2337-467d-916e-8ad2536f64ca"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0724?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "25d353b043f585b1a0bd0a21a566d7f2db7f2b6399d643bc5d42e0fd7dbce5cf"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
+---
+
+# Maryland SB 724 (2026) — State Retirement and Pension System - Cost-of-Living Adjustments - Clarification
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - State Retirement and Pension System - Cost-of-Living Adjustments - Clarification** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_55_sb0724t.pdf)
+2. **First - State Retirement and Pension System - Cost-of-Living Adjustments - Clarification** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0724f.pdf)
+3. **Third - State Retirement and Pension System - Cost-of-Living Adjustments - Clarification** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0724t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **130–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lewis Young — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-02-06** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-11** Hearing 2/19 at 9:00 a.m.
+- **2026-02-26** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-27** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-27** Second Reading Passed
+- **2026-03-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-03-04** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-10** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-10** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-10** Second Reading Passed
+- **2026-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-03-13** Returned Passed
+- **2026-04-14** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 55 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d72e7777-2337-467d-916e-8ad2536f64ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+