---
type: "Bill"
title: "Optional Retirement Program - Membership"
description: "Optional Retirement Program - Membership"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1379"
citation: "Maryland HB 1379 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "Committees and Commissions", "Communications", "Forms", "General Assembly", "Public Employees", "Retirement Systems", "State Employees", "State Universities and Colleges", "Time", "Transportation", "Department of", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Barnes"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-20"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f965be4-c46c-46a1-b466-a19a69cecc11"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1379&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "cc7544677c8f899f1c1e7499a36204710aaccbe8c709e216a2a0281eaac2be4b"
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 1379 (2019) — Optional Retirement Program - Membership

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb1379f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Barnes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-20** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** Rereferred to Appropriations
- **2019-02-28** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-28** Hearing canceled
- **2019-02-28** Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-11** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-13** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-14** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-18** Hearing 3/28 at 8:30 p.m.
- **2019-03-19** Hearing canceled
- **2019-03-19** Hearing 3/28 at 8:30 a.m.
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (42-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 348 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f965be4-c46c-46a1-b466-a19a69cecc11`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).