---
type: "Bill"
title: "Correctional Officers’ Retirement System – Transfer of Membership – Modifications"
description: "Correctional Officers’ Retirement System – Transfer of Membership – Modifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 527"
citation: "Maryland HB 527 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Forbes"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-01"
last_action: "2023-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d994fe00-cf1b-497a-a0a6-f81e8adffcc0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0527?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "27063cb4a661927e87baccea66e4cc5ad64c97c0506088e16b6e670845274d78"
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 527 (2023) — Correctional Officers’ Retirement System – Transfer of Membership – Modifications

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Correctional Officers’ Retirement System – Transfer of Membership – Modifications** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_197_hb0527t.pdf)
2. **First - Correctional Officers’ Retirement System – Transfer of Membership – Modifications** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0527f.pdf)
3. **Third - Correctional Officers’ Retirement System – Transfer of Membership – Modifications** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0527t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Chair, Joint Committee on Pensions — primary (organization)
- Forbes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-01** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-06** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-07** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-10** 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
- **2023-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 197 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d994fe00-cf1b-497a-a0a6-f81e8adffcc0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).