---
type: "Bill"
title: "Optional Retirement Program - Annuity Contracts - Employee Rights"
description: "Optional Retirement Program - Annuity Contracts - Employee Rights"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 353"
citation: "Maryland SB 353 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "Contracts", "Federal Government", "Forfeiture", "Income Tax", "Investments", "Retirement Systems", "Salaries and Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Guzzone (Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-25"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67e6525b-8dde-41b4-a0b4-2f09e5dc60e8"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB353&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "7b19618ad68ee143db3762a7bc1ab481fbcd3162aabe68a7e33e916ec8c196f6"
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 353 (2017) — Optional Retirement Program - Annuity Contracts - Employee Rights

## 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/sb0353f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-25** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-27** Hearing 2/02 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2017-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {489537/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-09** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-10** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-31** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Favorable with Amendments {164563/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 528 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/67e6525b-8dde-41b4-a0b4-2f09e5dc60e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).