---
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: "SB 236"
citation: "Maryland SB 236 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elfreth"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-20"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1700efa6-a1b7-454e-846d-189a6aac993b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0236?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e16d2f396bf247bed3a1495cbe79bf5582379c539c3fa451949124963c449f56"
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 236 (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_137_sb0236t.pdf)
2. **First - Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems - Obsolete Reemployment Provisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0236f.pdf)
3. **Third - Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems - Obsolete Reemployment Provisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0236t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair, Joint Committee on Pensions — primary (organization)
- Elfreth — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-20** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-21** Hearing 2/06 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2020-02-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-19** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-19** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-02-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-02-24** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02** Hearing 3/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-16** Hearing canceled
- **2020-03-16** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-17** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 137 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1700efa6-a1b7-454e-846d-189a6aac993b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).