---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Retirement and Pension System – Death Benefits for Children"
description: "State Retirement and Pension System – Death Benefits for Children"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 462"
citation: "Maryland SB 462 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elfreth"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-28"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5bed7ae1-837a-41b7-908e-af00a3abb18c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0462?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e5c4efcb3cf4c729be6e787054388ea94ddc230c7d01c9f4e1e88079a729c05e"
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 462 (2020) — State Retirement and Pension System – Death Benefits for Children

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Retirement and Pension System – Death Benefits for Children** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_556_sb0462t.pdf)
2. **First - State Retirement and Pension System - Death Benefits for Children - Age** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0462f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Retirement and Pension System – Death Benefits for Children** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0462t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-28** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-28** Hearing 2/06 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2020-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-09** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-12** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **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 556 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5bed7ae1-837a-41b7-908e-af00a3abb18c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).