---
type: "Bill"
title: "Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems - Obsolete Reemployment Provisions"
description: "Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems - Obsolete Reemployment Provisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 251"
citation: "Maryland HB 251 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Jackson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-01-17"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfd4f887-e3b6-4a07-9b3e-eb659378465d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0251?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "4bacc76fc0147f49f5a9b87f14e481baba9c9bf27bccc69c1bfa052b6cc5c144"
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 251 (2020) — Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems - Obsolete Reemployment Provisions

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems - Obsolete Reemployment Provisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_136_hb0251t.pdf)
2. **First - Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems - Obsolete Reemployment Provisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0251f.pdf)
3. **Third - Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems - Obsolete Reemployment Provisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0251t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **131–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chair, Joint Committee on Pensions — primary (organization)
- M. Jackson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-17** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-02-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-02-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-02-14** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-11** Hearing 3/19 at 9:30 a.m.
- **2020-03-16** Hearing canceled
- **2020-03-16** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-17** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 136 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfd4f887-e3b6-4a07-9b3e-eb659378465d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).