---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employees' Retirement and Pension Systems - Reemployment Earnings Limitation - COVID-19 Exemption"
description: "Employees' Retirement and Pension Systems - Reemployment Earnings Limitation - COVID-19 Exemption"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1274"
citation: "Maryland HB 1274 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-23"
last_action: "2023-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88672848-9868-4917-8f5a-069ff519acc1"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1274?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "76eafd31fcc5692f7b68caf7aa180b24ea86204797e9c74cf27212dd0f1bd769"
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 1274 (2023) — Employees' Retirement and Pension Systems - Reemployment Earnings Limitation - COVID-19 Exemption

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Employees' Retirement and Pension Systems - Reemployment Earnings Limitation - COVID-19 Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_227_hb1274t.pdf)
2. **First - Employees' Retirement and Pension Systems - Reemployment Earnings Limitation - COVID-19 Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb1274f.pdf)
3. **Third - Employees' Retirement and Pension Systems - Reemployment Earnings Limitation - COVID-19 Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb1274t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Chair, Appropriations Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-23** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-06** Rereferred to Appropriations
- **2023-03-13** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-27** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-28** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-29** Referred Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-05** Rereferred to Budget and Taxation
- **2023-04-07** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2023-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2023-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 227 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/88672848-9868-4917-8f5a-069ff519acc1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).