---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Retirement and Pension System - Death Benefits"
description: "State Retirement and Pension System - Death Benefits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 913"
citation: "Maryland SB 913 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "Age of Majority", "Beneficiaries", "Death", "Disabilities", "Federal Government", "Minors", "Retirement Systems"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Guzzone (Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29ce9b55-c205-43d0-8a08-ce298a12f0d3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB913&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "5c409bf5c556fc47134afc7b02f25e36224a00d9877b35c898057c9c1756a6bc"
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 913 (2017) — State Retirement and Pension System - Death 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/sb0913f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **138–0** (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.

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 3/02 at 8:30 a.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {169132/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-21** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-05** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-06** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 277 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/29ce9b55-c205-43d0-8a08-ce298a12f0d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).