---
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: "SB 402"
citation: "Maryland SB 402 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Administration", "Bailey", "Carozza", "Cassilly", "Corderman", "Eckardt", "Edwards", "Elfreth", "Gallion", "Hershey", "Hester", "Jennings", "President", "Ready", "Salling", "Simonaire", "West"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-24"
last_action: "2022-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79739316-82b1-4b5f-b2fa-0d8bbe5be1ad"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0402?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "519e093f9d5290943e256694307614a6a797d4266ec877970ba55179f2ffba25"
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 402 (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_58_sb0402t.pdf)
2. **First - Employees’ Retirement and Pension Systems – Reemployment Earnings Limitation – COVID–19 Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0402f.pdf)
3. **Third - Employees’ Retirement and Pension Systems – Reemployment Earnings Limitation – COVID–19 Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0402t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **135–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Administration — primary (person)
- Bailey — primary (person)
- Carozza — primary (person)
- Cassilly — primary (person)
- Corderman — primary (person)
- Eckardt — primary (person)
- Edwards — primary (person)
- Elfreth — primary (person)
- Gallion — primary (person)
- Hershey — primary (person)
- Hester — primary (person)
- Jennings — primary (person)
- President — primary (person)
- Ready — primary (person)
- Salling — primary (person)
- Simonaire — primary (person)
- West — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-24** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26** Hearing 2/10 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2022-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-07** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-11** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-13** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-22** Hearing canceled
- **2022-03-22** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-29** Hearing canceled
- **2022-04-05** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-05** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2022-04-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 58 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79739316-82b1-4b5f-b2fa-0d8bbe5be1ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).