---
type: "Bill"
title: "Constitutional Officers - Salaries"
description: "Constitutional Officers - Salaries"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 312"
citation: "Maryland SB 312 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Governor's Salary Commission", "President"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-21"
last_action: "2026-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7575a755-6868-4415-8f5f-b14d9ff43927"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0312?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "0c7b442cd2a7909a25a5dde8344690e1a594cc71f2874d5e71dfe76ca8b373ec"
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 312 (2026) — Constitutional Officers - Salaries

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Constitutional Officers - Salaries** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_562_sb0312t.pdf)
2. **First - Constitutional Officers - Salaries** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0312f.pdf)
3. **Third - Constitutional Officers - Salaries** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0312t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **39–7** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **114–20** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Governor's Salary Commission — primary (person)
- President — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-21** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-05** Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-03-13** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-13** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-13** Second Reading Passed
- **2026-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-18** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-21** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-04-07** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-07** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2026-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 562 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7575a755-6868-4415-8f5f-b14d9ff43927`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).