HB0312 • 2026

Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Redeposit of Accumulated Contributions - Alterations

Education Labor

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Delegate Simpson
Last action: 2026-03-18
Official status: In the House - Hearing 3/18 at 12:45 p.m.
Effective date: 2026-07-01

Plain English Breakdown

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Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Redeposit of Accumulated Contributions - Alterations

Authorizing a member of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System to receive certain service credit on the redeposit of contributions from the Employees' Pension System or the Teachers' Pension System.

What This Bill Does

Authorizing a member of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System to receive certain service credit on the redeposit of contributions from the Employees' Pension System or the Teachers' Pension System.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2026-03-18 House
Hearing canceled
2026-03-18 House
Hearing 3/18 at 12:45 p.m.
2026-02-17 House
Hearing 3/18 at 1:00 p.m.
2026-02-09 House
Rereferred to Appropriations
2026-01-15 House
First Reading Government, Labor, and Elections
Maryland General Assembly
Text - First - Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Redeposit of Accumulated Contributions - Alterations
Maryland General Assembly
Vote - House - Committee - Government, Labor, and Elections

Official Summary Text

Authorizing a member of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System to receive certain service credit on the redeposit of contributions from the Employees' Pension System or the Teachers' Pension System.

Current Bill Text

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EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MATTER ADDED TO EXISTING LAW.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.
*hb0312*

HOUSE BILL 312
P6 6lr2108
CF SB 239
By: Delegate Simpson
Introduced and read first time: January 15, 2026
Assigned to: Government, Labor, and Elections

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ACT concerning 1

Correctional Officers’ Retirement System – Redeposit of Accumulated 2
Contributions – Alterations 3

FOR the purpose of authorizing a member of the Correctional Officers’ Retirement System 4
to receive certain service credit on the redeposit of contributions from the Employees’ 5
Pension System or the Teachers’ Pension System ; and generally relating to service 6
credit in the Correctional Officers’ Retirement System. 7

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 8
Article – State Personnel and Pensions 9
Section 25–304 10
Annotated Code of Maryland 11
(2024 Replacement Volume and 2025 Supplement) 12

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 13
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 14

Article – State Personnel and Pensions 15

25–304. 16

A member of the Correctional Officers’ Retirement System who previously 17
terminated membership and withdrew accumulated contributions from either the 18
Correctional Officers’ Retirement System, the Employees’ Retirement System, [or] THE 19
EMPLOYEES’ PENSION SYSTEM, the Teachers’ Retirement System, OR THE TEACHERS’ 20
PENSION SYSTEM may receive service credit for the period of employment during the 21
previous membership if the member redeposits in a single payment the withdrawn 22
accumulated contributions plus regular interest to the date of redeposit. 23

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July 24
2 HOUSE BILL 312

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