---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Employee and Retiree Health Benefits - Creditable Service"
description: "State Employee and Retiree Health Benefits - Creditable Service"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 581"
citation: "Maryland HB 581 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Crosby", "M. Morgan", "T. Morgan"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-03"
last_action: "2023-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88418240-66af-4f0b-a01a-c88b94493515"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0581?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "bda97c3302890446de46ce3cc59d49400d732f5db132f3fceb325b764e99c4d3"
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 581 (2023) — State Employee and Retiree Health Benefits - Creditable Service

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Employee and Retiree Health Benefits - Creditable Service** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_128_hb0581t.pdf)
2. **First - State Employee and Retiree Health Benefits - Creditable Service - Historic St. Mary's City Commission** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0581f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Employee and Retiree Health Benefits - Creditable Service** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0581t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Crosby — primary (person)
- M. Morgan — primary (person)
- T. Morgan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-03** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-03** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-20** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-03** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2023-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 128 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/88418240-66af-4f0b-a01a-c88b94493515`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).