---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Retirement and Pension System - Service Credit"
description: "State Retirement and Pension System - Service Credit"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 491"
citation: "Maryland SB 491 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-24"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/04af1bec-606c-4f43-a8f7-1db39dccca94"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0491?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e7ba8ef1692b3337c476d3a15f5d59dfffe993b2c23105a45159bf3c5bee4c11"
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 491 (2024) — State Retirement and Pension System - Service Credit

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Retirement and Pension System - Service Credit** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_668_sb0491e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - State Retirement and Pension System - Service Credit** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0491e.pdf)
3. **First - State Retirement and Pension System - Transfers of Service** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0491f.pdf)
4. **Third - State Retirement and Pension System - Transfers of Service** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0491t.pdf)

## Votes

- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-24** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** Hearing 2/08 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2024-03-07** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-08** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-14** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-16** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Senate Concurs House Amendments
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 668 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/04af1bec-606c-4f43-a8f7-1db39dccca94`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).