---
type: "Bill"
title: "Judges' Retirement System - Mandatory Retirement Age - Clarification of Eligibility for Allowance"
description: "Judges' Retirement System - Mandatory Retirement Age - Clarification of Eligibility for Allowance"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 176"
citation: "Maryland SB 176 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "Judges", "Mandatory Retirement", "Public Officials", "Retirement Systems", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Guzzone (Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-15"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a997cba7-4773-4862-8f67-9aba69a13f4e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB176&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "aa58c2d2af014c367b2e7f997736c6fb2619454e93fd103975361e374a7f171a"
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 176 (2018) — Judges' Retirement System - Mandatory Retirement Age - Clarification of Eligibility for Allowance

## 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/2018RS/bills/sb/sb0176f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-15** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-17** Hearing 1/25 at 9:30 a.m.
- **2018-01-29** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-02-01** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-02** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-14** Hearing canceled
- **2018-03-23** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 249 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a997cba7-4773-4862-8f67-9aba69a13f4e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).