---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employees' and Teachers' Pension Systems - Reformed Contributory Pension Benefit - Service Credit Purchase Clarification"
description: "Employees' and Teachers' Pension Systems - Reformed Contributory Pension Benefit - Service Credit Purchase Clarification"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 256"
citation: "Maryland SB 256 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "Credit", "Retirement Systems", "Salaries and Compensation", "State Employees", "Teachers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Guzzone (Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/375a701c-0252-423d-9f5c-6a356fb5445b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB256&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "df19c763a4d548a3733ebb92d839f8cf966132ada588c31687f3171ca9d9cbf9"
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 256 (2017) — Employees' and Teachers' Pension Systems - Reformed Contributory Pension Benefit - Service Credit Purchase Clarification

## 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/sb/sb0256f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Guzzone (Chair — primary (person)
- Joint Committee on Pensions) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-20** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/02 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2017-02-06** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-08** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-13** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-14** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 269 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/375a701c-0252-423d-9f5c-6a356fb5445b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).