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+type: "Bill"
+title: "State Police Retirement System - Mandatory Retirement Age - Alteration"
+description: "State Police Retirement System - Mandatory Retirement Age - Alteration"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 654"
+citation: "Maryland SB 654 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Augustine"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-02-06"
+last_action: "2026-04-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56ecdbda-44f5-41fb-94ef-c6510714ee84"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0654?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "e855bac1aa968aee74ebce70d0b5a3eafbc35acdd634be6c7d6d6817b6c9ae40"
+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 654 (2026) — State Police Retirement System - Mandatory Retirement Age - Alteration
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - State Police Retirement System - Mandatory Retirement Age - Alteration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_268_sb0654t.pdf)
+2. **First - State Police Retirement System - Mandatory Retirement Age - Alteration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0654f.pdf)
+3. **Third - State Police Retirement System - Mandatory Retirement Age - Alteration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0654t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Augustine — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-02-06** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-11** Hearing 3/05 at 8:30 a.m.
+- **2026-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-03-19** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-03-20** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-21** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-04-11** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-11** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-13** Returned Passed
+- **2026-04-28** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 268 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/56ecdbda-44f5-41fb-94ef-c6510714ee84`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+