---
type: "Bill"
title: "Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Reemployment as Sheriff"
description: "Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Reemployment as Sheriff"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 706"
citation: "Maryland SB 706 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-30"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b3119a2-2784-4d38-801f-ab7ff785277b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0706?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ff8c6cdf4dda66e9325ed8bc92fbb06515fc2288dd7089e1a0b50022888a0418"
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 706 (2024) — Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Reemployment as Sheriff

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Reemployment as Sheriff** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_671_sb0706t.pdf)
2. **First - Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Reemployment as Sheriff** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0706f.pdf)
3. **Third - Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Reemployment as Sheriff** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0706t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-30** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-30** Hearing 2/08 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2024-02-05** Hearing canceled
- **2024-02-05** Hearing 2/22 at 8:30 a.m.
- **2024-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-15** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-19** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-29** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 671 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4b3119a2-2784-4d38-801f-ab7ff785277b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).