---
type: "Bill"
title: "Optional Retirement Program - Annuity Contracts - Employee Rights"
description: "Optional Retirement Program - Annuity Contracts - Employee Rights"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 304"
citation: "Maryland HB 304 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "Contracts", "Federal Government", "Forfeiture", "Income Tax", "Retirement Systems", "Salaries and Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Barnes (Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-25"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f484adbc-648a-4a0b-8648-e5db56ab8ada"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB304&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "75441de07edc1a45536d10edad4f39d61fdb39d687b562083b50703156e30125"
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 HB 304 (2017) — Optional Retirement Program - Annuity Contracts - Employee Rights

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0304f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- B. Barnes (Chair — primary (person)
- Joint Committee on Pensions) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-25** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-08** Hearing canceled
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {524766/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-16** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-24** Hearing 3/30 at 8:30 a.m.
- **2017-03-29** Hearing canceled
- **2017-03-29** Hearing 3/30 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2017-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable with Amendments {249335/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 527 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f484adbc-648a-4a0b-8648-e5db56ab8ada`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).