---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pensions - Administrative and Operational Expenses - Limitation and Calculation"
description: "Pensions - Administrative and Operational Expenses - Limitation and Calculation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1018"
citation: "Maryland HB 1018 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "Committees and Commissions", "Retirement Systems", "State Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Barnes (Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-07"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7451303a-7133-4558-97b7-24fc97cc90dd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1018&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "a2f31dbc27df7542c481477f67d1ee1dc011e90a333fc9421df220b5f0272a3b"
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 1018 (2018) — Pensions - Administrative and Operational Expenses - Limitation and Calculation

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1018f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **134–4** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-07** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Hearing 2/22 at 3:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-05** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (134-4) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Hearing 3/22 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2018-03-23** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-23** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-23** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-26** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-27** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 723 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7451303a-7133-4558-97b7-24fc97cc90dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).