---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unappropriated General Fund Surplus - Appropriation to Pension Fund and Postretirement Health Benefits Trust Fund"
description: "Unappropriated General Fund Surplus - Appropriation to Pension Fund and Postretirement Health Benefits Trust Fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 28"
citation: "Maryland HB 28 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "Operating Budget", "Appropriations", "Health", "Legislative Services", "Department of", "Liability", "Reports", "Retirement Systems", "Revenue and Taxes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Krimm"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2016-10-05"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1e53b16-e377-49de-9f73-4a833ba97b2c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB28&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "5e48965c409bce837cd46778737fd7b4bab6e25a74264e38ff7b7f0a189193ce"
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 HB 28 (2017) — Unappropriated General Fund Surplus - Appropriation to Pension Fund and Postretirement Health Benefits Trust Fund

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0028f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **130–5** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Krimm — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2016-10-05** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-19** Hearing 1/31 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-27** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-02** Third Reading Passed (130-5) `passage`
- **2017-03-03** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/30 at 8:30 a.m.
- **2017-03-29** Hearing canceled
- **2017-03-29** Hearing 3/30 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 557 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d1e53b16-e377-49de-9f73-4a833ba97b2c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).