---
type: "Bill"
title: "Correctional Officers’ Retirement System – Membership"
description: "Correctional Officers’ Retirement System – Membership"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 299"
citation: "Maryland SB 299 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Income", "State Pensions and Retirement", "Correctional Officers", "Disabilities", "Income Tax", "Juvenile Services", "Department of", "Notices", "Public Safety and Correctional Services", "Department of", "Retirement Systems", "Salaries and Compensation", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["The President (By Request - Administration) and Bates"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-22"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6fe3aaa5-9aeb-4b09-8fed-6618b94c836a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB299&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "a4a73c4f96adec001d057048f08515f83b560ad613f9828ed415987a5cd720d1"
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 299 (2018) — Correctional Officers’ Retirement System – Membership

## 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/sb0299f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On third reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- The President (By Request - Administration) and Bates — primary (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Hough — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-22** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {739735/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-20** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-26** Reassigned to Appropriations
- **2018-03-27** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {354668/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2018-04-05** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 579 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6fe3aaa5-9aeb-4b09-8fed-6618b94c836a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).