---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Retirement and Pension System - Board of Trustees - Responsibilities and Duties"
description: "State Retirement and Pension System - Board of Trustees - Responsibilities and Duties"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 489"
citation: "Maryland SB 489 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-24"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1b641bf-7d78-478a-bc1b-bc9f12054c1f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0489?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "cb619320cc9b54f957879a4c4aad71eeb28b33955c35951dec12b9b27f8544e7"
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 489 (2024) — State Retirement and Pension System - Board of Trustees - Responsibilities and Duties

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Retirement and Pension System - Board of Trustees - Responsibilities and Duties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_664_sb0489t.pdf)
2. **First - State Retirement and Pension System - Personal Statement of Benefits - Authorized Format** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0489f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Retirement and Pension System - Board of Trustees - Responsibilities and Duties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0489t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-24** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** Hearing 2/08 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2024-03-07** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-08** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-14** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-16** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-29** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 664 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a1b641bf-7d78-478a-bc1b-bc9f12054c1f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).