---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Retirement and Pension System - Administrative Fees - Repeal"
description: "State Retirement and Pension System - Administrative Fees - Repeal"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 862"
citation: "Maryland SB 862 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Jackson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71d1b64a-1e01-412a-baac-91ecd6fe88d9"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0862?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "4ba3941c3659d02859ce89e77fb1a4ce0869a1322568703ce4d02dc29d8c09bc"
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 862 (2025) — State Retirement and Pension System - Administrative Fees - Repeal

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Retirement and Pension System - Administrative Fees - Repeal** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_765_sb0862t.pdf)
2. **First - State Retirement and Pension System - Administrative Fees - Repeal** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0862f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Retirement and Pension System - Administrative Fees - Repeal** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0862t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Hearing 2/13 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2025-02-05** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-05** Hearing 2/27 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2025-02-07** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-07** Hearing 2/13 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-13** 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
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 765 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71d1b64a-1e01-412a-baac-91ecd6fe88d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).