---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Retirement and Pension System - Death Benefits"
description: "State Retirement and Pension System - Death Benefits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1122"
citation: "Maryland HB 1122 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "Beneficiaries", "Death", "Disabilities", "Minors", "Retirement Systems"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Barnes (Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-09"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10cedaf2-aefc-4c80-98d8-a0423ee89408"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1122&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "460a4a7873483d8bf3609a00db106c1de44f644f1afae8df22d3037ec36d8239"
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 1122 (2017) — State Retirement and Pension System - Death Benefits

## 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/hb1122f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-09** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-18** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** 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 {139836/1 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
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 278 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/10cedaf2-aefc-4c80-98d8-a0423ee89408`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).