# State Personnel and Pensions (GSP)

## Title 29. Benefits Other Than Service Retirement Benefits

### Subtitle 3. Deferred Vested Benefits

#### Section 29-304

An individual shall have immediate vesting rights on taking office in the State system in which the individual is a member if the individual is the:

(1) secretary of a principal department of the Executive Branch of State government as provided under Sec. 8-201 of the State Government Article;

(2) Executive Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission;

(3) Adjutant General of the Military Department;

(4) Chair of the State Board of Contract Appeals;

(5) Chair of the Public Service Commission;

(6) Chair of the Workers' Compensation Commission;

(7) Chief Administrative Law Judge of the Office of Administrative Hearings;

(8) Director of the Health Care Alternative Dispute Resolution Office;

(9) Director of the Maryland Energy Administration;

(10) Director of the Office of the Deaf, Deaf blind, and Hard of Hearing;

(11) Director of the Office of Homeland Security;

(12) Director of the Office of Performance Improvement;

(13) Director of the State Department of Assessments and Taxation;

(14) Director of the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency;

(15) Executive Director of the Governor's Office of Community and Crime;

(16) Executive Director of the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention and Policy;

(17) Executive Director of the State Retirement Agency;

(18) Insurance Commissioner of the Maryland Insurance Administration;

(19) Special Secretary of the Governor's Office for Children;

(20) State Archivist;

(21) State Prosecutor of the State Prosecutor's Office; or

(22) State Superintendent of Schools.

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Md. Code Ann., State Pers. & Pens. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)