---
type: "Bill"
title: "Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Membership - Clarifications"
description: "Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Membership - Clarifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 768"
citation: "Maryland SB 768 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Jackson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/419586eb-0310-4f8a-9c07-ee74522915f5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0768?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "4d45d1f367a7a564cd86421896386ea616016539ded46c8be03dc3ed911bc6c1"
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 768 (2025) — Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Membership - Clarifications

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Membership - Clarifications** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_776_sb0768t.pdf)
2. **First - Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Membership - Clarifications** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0768f.pdf)
3. **Third - Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Membership - Clarifications** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0768t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03** Hearing 2/13 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2025-02-03** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-05** Hearing 2/27 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 776 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/419586eb-0310-4f8a-9c07-ee74522915f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).