---
type: "Bill"
title: "Judges' Retirement System - Mandatory Retirement Age - Clarification of Eligibility for Allowance"
description: "Judges' Retirement System - Mandatory Retirement Age - Clarification of Eligibility for Allowance"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 164"
citation: "Maryland HB 164 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "Judges", "Mandatory Retirement", "Public Officials", "Retirement Systems", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Barnes (Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-17"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f4f4473-c4b4-440e-be95-8e276676d5ea"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB164&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "c47e996f3373ad422cb5d0d4082f53e4d3d0c0bdb6f02c30a0ac392aac13a6ef"
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 164 (2018) — Judges' Retirement System - Mandatory Retirement Age - Clarification of Eligibility for Allowance

## 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/hb0164f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-17** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-02** Hearing canceled
- **2018-02-02** Hearing 2/08 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-19** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-20** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-20** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-02-22** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-23** 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
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 248 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4f4f4473-c4b4-440e-be95-8e276676d5ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).