---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employees', Teachers', and Correctional Officers' Systems - Active Members - Death Benefits"
description: "Employees', Teachers', and Correctional Officers' Systems - Active Members - Death Benefits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 828"
citation: "Maryland SB 828 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "Age of Majority", "Beneficiaries", "Committees and Commissions", "Communications", "Correctional Officers", "Death", "Disabilities", "Evidence", "Minors", "Notices", "Parents and Guardians", "Public Employees", "Spouses", "State Employees", "Teachers", "Vital Records", "Welfare"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Griffith (Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51ae2879-2e2c-42e3-906a-7b08a05d4125"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB828&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "668cb8c8ac7530922e8d834df2efd5afb8d7f3f8d848e74340c8477f1e9dddd4"
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 828 (2019) — Employees', Teachers', and Correctional Officers' Systems - Active Members - Death 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/sb0828f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Hearing 2/28 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2019-02-18** Hearing canceled
- **2019-02-18** Hearing 2/28 at 8:30 a.m.
- **2019-03-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Favorable with Amendments {549733/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-01** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-02** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** Rereferred to Appropriations
- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 208 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/51ae2879-2e2c-42e3-906a-7b08a05d4125`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).