---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employees' Pension System - Purchase of Credit for Eligibility Service - Legislative Employees"
description: "Employees' Pension System - Purchase of Credit for Eligibility Service - Legislative Employees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 817"
citation: "Maryland HB 817 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "Committees and Commissions", "Credit", "Legislative Services", "Department of", "Retirement Systems", "State Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Barnes (Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44b6c2ad-c78b-4116-a5fb-2ac9e5e270dd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB817&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "45f37e06c4a33d3af2c5fb67e2a9139e39bf0e95246773774bfb92631219b14d"
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 817 (2017) — Employees' Pension System - Purchase of Credit for Eligibility Service - Legislative Employees

## 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/hb0817f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- B. Barnes (Chair — primary (person)
- Joint Committee on Pensions) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Hearing 2/21 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 (134-0) `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.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 274 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44b6c2ad-c78b-4116-a5fb-2ac9e5e270dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).