---
type: "Bill"
title: "Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Membership"
description: "Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Membership"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 972"
citation: "Maryland SB 972 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Guzzone"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-02"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/afc1f866-c264-4e1d-bb9f-ad4ceec15a78"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0972?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "00a72158c678249946feb39f457cf370d538124f8d472b2c498920dde0ea6e4b"
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 972 (2024) — Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Membership

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Membership** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_136_sb0972t.pdf)
2. **First - Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Membership** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0972f.pdf)
3. **Third - Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Membership** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0972t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Guzzone — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-02** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-06** 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`
- **2024-03-16** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-16** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-18** Hearing canceled
- **2024-04-02** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 136 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/afc1f866-c264-4e1d-bb9f-ad4ceec15a78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).