---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employees’ and Teachers’ Pension Systems – Benefits"
description: "Employees’ and Teachers’ Pension Systems – Benefits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 119"
citation: "Maryland SB 119 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "Boundaries", "Claims", "Committees and Commissions", "Federal Government", "Private Schools", "Public Schools", "Retirement Systems", "Revenue and Taxes", "State Employees", "Teachers", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Griffith (Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2569a5fe-072a-4350-b4bb-d50ac724737c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB119&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "fbd4c049ecf84fb5511970d4e21bd673dbac15e6fd62baec0782dc4a60ea96ee"
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 119 (2019) — Employees’ and Teachers’ Pension Systems – 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/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0119f.pdf)

## Votes

- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Griffith (Chair — primary (person)
- Joint Committee on Pensions) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-17** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** Hearing 1/31 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2019-02-07** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-08** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-02-12** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-13** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-02** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Favorable with Amendments {474263/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-04** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-04** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 484 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2569a5fe-072a-4350-b4bb-d50ac724737c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).