---
type: "Bill"
title: "Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Crisfield Police Department"
description: "Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Crisfield Police Department"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 163"
citation: "Maryland HB 163 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Otto"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-16"
last_action: "2023-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b106e9b8-a7b4-4065-835d-770e302edc72"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0163?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "0c86b2d0b5861ea8d5916485d746e2cd1bc5db7b3e2f3b9e0b94c112aa640688"
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 163 (2023) — Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Crisfield Police Department

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Crisfield Police Department** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_72_hb0163t.pdf)
2. **First - Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Crisfield Police Department** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0163f.pdf)
3. **Third - Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Crisfield Police Department** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0163t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Otto — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** Hearing 1/31 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-16** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-17** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-17** Second Reading Passed
- **2023-03-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-20** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-27** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-28** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2023-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 72 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b106e9b8-a7b4-4065-835d-770e302edc72`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).