---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Retirement and Pension System - Designated Beneficiary Change - Rescission"
description: "State Retirement and Pension System - Designated Beneficiary Change - Rescission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 186"
citation: "Maryland SB 186 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "Administrative Agencies", "Beneficiaries", "Committees and Commissions", "Death", "Notices", "Retirement Systems"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Griffith (Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2aa15dc1-26ec-4f78-9749-a2507be38b11"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB186&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "a570d17cbeaa5352ccea2b65ef71cb211ed82d6f5da4f2fd39fbe1cf9d2962ec"
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 186 (2019) — State Retirement and Pension System - Designated Beneficiary Change - Rescission

## 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/sb0186f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (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.

- **2019-01-23** 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 Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 206 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2aa15dc1-26ec-4f78-9749-a2507be38b11`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).