---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Retirement and Pension System - Earnable Compensation, Nonvested Former Members, and Immediate Vesting"
description: "State Retirement and Pension System - Earnable Compensation, Nonvested Former Members, and Immediate Vesting"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 274"
citation: "Maryland SB 274 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-26"
last_action: "2023-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b8e5541-4272-43e0-a5b8-165ed1dbc2fd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0274?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "b6cd5d9fc8cdc492cdace9db8e2175dbcfd3250971f76119947d4322c33009b8"
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 274 (2023) — State Retirement and Pension System - Earnable Compensation, Nonvested Former Members, and Immediate Vesting

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Retirement and Pension System - Earnable Compensation, Nonvested Former Members, and Immediate Vesting** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_191_sb0274e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - State Retirement and Pension System - Earnable Compensation, Nonvested Former Members, and Immediate Vesting** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0274e.pdf)
3. **First - State Retirement and Pension System - Nonvested Former Members - Return of Accumulated Contributions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0274f.pdf)
4. **Third - State Retirement and Pension System - Earnable Compensation, Nonvested Former Members, and Immediate Vesting** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0274t.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-26** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** Hearing 2/02 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2023-03-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-09** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-14** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-20** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-30** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-30** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-30** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-07** Senate Concurs House Amendments
- **2023-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2023-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 191 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b8e5541-4272-43e0-a5b8-165ed1dbc2fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).