---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employees' Retirement and Pension Systems - Reemployment Earnings Limitation - COVID-19 Exemption"
description: "Employees' Retirement and Pension Systems - Reemployment Earnings Limitation - COVID-19 Exemption"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 417"
citation: "Maryland HB 417 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Administration", "Anderton", "Boteler", "Buckel", "Chisholm", "Ghrist", "Griffith", "Hartman", "Hornberger", "Howard", "Jacobs", "Kipke", "Kittleman", "Krebs", "Mangione", "Mautz", "McComas", "McKay", "Metzgar", "Morgan", "Munoz", "Novotny", "Otto", "Parrott", "Reilly", "Saab", "Shoemaker", "Speaker", "Szeliga", "Thiam", "Wivell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-19"
last_action: "2022-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54c8cbc3-a872-4f5d-8ee1-05f09b294549"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0417?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e82c752961c38f85e6cd44002863aadd289968c28922d24d9a9fb3cdf97821f7"
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 HB 417 (2022) — Employees' Retirement and Pension Systems - Reemployment Earnings Limitation - COVID-19 Exemption

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Employees' Retirement and Pension Systems - Reemployment Earnings Limitation - COVID-19 Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_57_hb0417t.pdf)
2. **First - Employees' Retirement and Pension Systems - Reemployment Earnings Limitation - COVID-19 Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0417f.pdf)
3. **Third - Employees' Retirement and Pension Systems - Reemployment Earnings Limitation - COVID-19 Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0417t.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 417 HB 447 HB 542 HB 742 HB 743 HB 1091 — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **130–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Administration — primary (person)
- Anderton — primary (person)
- Boteler — primary (person)
- Buckel — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Ghrist — primary (person)
- Griffith — primary (person)
- Hartman — primary (person)
- Hornberger — primary (person)
- Howard — primary (person)
- Jacobs — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Kittleman — primary (person)
- Krebs — primary (person)
- Mangione — primary (person)
- Mautz — primary (person)
- McComas — primary (person)
- McKay — primary (person)
- Metzgar — primary (person)
- Morgan — primary (person)
- Munoz — primary (person)
- Novotny — primary (person)
- Otto — primary (person)
- Parrott — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Saab — primary (person)
- Shoemaker — primary (person)
- Speaker — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Thiam — primary (person)
- Wivell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-19** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-02-01** Hearing canceled
- **2022-02-01** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-19** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-19** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-22** Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-24** Hearing canceled
- **2022-04-01** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-01** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2022-04-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 57 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/54c8cbc3-a872-4f5d-8ee1-05f09b294549`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).