---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Safety Officer - Performance of Duties - Death Benefits"
description: "Public Safety Officer - Performance of Duties - Death Benefits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 396"
citation: "Maryland SB 396 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Benson", "M. Jackson", "McKay"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99ff66e4-3d3e-4773-b641-a6cfc44bcc03"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0396?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "da5ada13f163b81628acbaea1001befbe4bc68d6709ab2afaa963d4c87b57428"
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 396 (2025) — Public Safety Officer - Performance of Duties - Death Benefits

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Public Safety Officer - Performance of Duties - Death Benefits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_573_sb0396t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Safety Officer - Performance of Duties - Death and Disability Benefits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0396f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Safety Officer - Performance of Duties - Death Benefits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0396t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Benson — primary (person)
- M. Jackson — primary (person)
- McKay — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20** First Reading Budget and Taxation and Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation)
- **2025-01-30** Hearing canceled (Budget and Taxation)
- **2025-01-30** Hearing 2/05 at 2:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation)
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Motion Laid Over (Senator Kagan) Adopted
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 573 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/99ff66e4-3d3e-4773-b641-a6cfc44bcc03`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).