---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Retirement and Pension System - Membership Elections"
description: "State Retirement and Pension System - Membership Elections"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 401"
citation: "Maryland SB 401 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "Administrative Agencies", "Committees and Commissions", "Correctional Officers", "Law Enforcement", "Legislation", "Local Government Mandates", "Retirement Systems", "State Police", "Department of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Guzzone (Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-27"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6424c842-88df-4079-9142-04bfa7dbe010"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB401&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "8bf804d67c4d0a1866f13d5ca08364b2a51a1231913dc98ac138d1cd4c1f94fe"
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 401 (2017) — State Retirement and Pension System - Membership Elections

## 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/sb0401f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-27** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-27** Hearing 2/16 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 {639137/1 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 Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 271 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6424c842-88df-4079-9142-04bfa7dbe010`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).