---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Retirement and Pension System - Small Procurements - Medical Evaluations for Disability Retirement Benefits"
description: "State Retirement and Pension System - Small Procurements - Medical Evaluations for Disability Retirement Benefits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 448"
citation: "Maryland SB 448 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "State Government - Procurement", "Assessments", "Disabilities", "Health", "Physicians", "Procurement", "Retirement Systems", "State Employees", "Witnesses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Guzzone (Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b6a1bac-c91a-4edb-9487-37a947f50da7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB448&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "19a5737bbe9998568a7d80b4ecdd46d82393e92532666d52cf3d0fc538aa4660"
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 448 (2017) — State Retirement and Pension System - Small Procurements - Medical Evaluations for Disability Retirement Benefits

## 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/sb0448f.pdf)

## Votes

- 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.

- **2017-01-30** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/16 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2017-02-20** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-23** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-24** 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 (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 82 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7b6a1bac-c91a-4edb-9487-37a947f50da7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).