---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Police Retirement System and Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Member Contributions"
description: "State Police Retirement System and Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Member Contributions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 587"
citation: "Maryland SB 587 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Griffith", "Serafini"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-31"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d812438e-6b86-407d-ab83-08eaaf190e94"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0587?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "4225eae54819ded27d30d3399309f07ae62de5abf25e9795d6f04b90f4469ac2"
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 587 (2020) — State Police Retirement System and Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Member Contributions

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Police Retirement System and Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Member Contributions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_266_sb0587t.pdf)
2. **First - State Police Retirement System and Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Member Contributions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0587f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Police Retirement System and Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Member Contributions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0587t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Griffith — primary (person)
- Serafini — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-31** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-03** Hearing 2/20 at 8:30 a.m.
- **2020-03-13** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-13** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-13** Second Reading Passed
- **2020-03-15** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-15** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-17** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 266 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d812438e-6b86-407d-ab83-08eaaf190e94`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).