---
type: "Bill"
title: "Circuit Court Clerks - Salary Increase"
description: "Circuit Court Clerks - Salary Increase"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 74"
citation: "Maryland SB 74 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-10-22"
last_action: "2022-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6f64d37-4f47-4b9f-94a5-90efa386d86e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0074?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "60020ae33c717d8516c16a7bec949dd8b92862ca2e2b718de10a89c2f6d4e247"
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 74 (2022) — Circuit Court Clerks - Salary Increase

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Circuit Court Clerks - Salary Increase** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_189_sb0074t.pdf)
2. **First - Circuit Court Clerks - Salary Increase** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0074f.pdf)
3. **Third - Circuit Court Clerks - Salary Increase** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0074t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **41–4** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **104–30** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jackson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-22** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-10** Hearing 1/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-02-21** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-22** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-22** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-02-24** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-25** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-09** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-09** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-11** Returned Passed
- **2022-04-21** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 189 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c6f64d37-4f47-4b9f-94a5-90efa386d86e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).