---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Retirement and Pension System - Membership Elections"
description: "State Retirement and Pension System - Membership Elections"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 815"
citation: "Maryland HB 815 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "Administrative Agencies", "Committees and Commissions", "Correctional Officers", "Law Enforcement", "Local Government Mandates", "Retail Sales", "Retirement Systems", "State Police", "Department of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Barnes (Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbc9ea02-08a5-41dd-a1d0-bf9cfc14c8d6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB815&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "8f993bc916a7439175d4e532b62f32602cc9b9b6be93d1ae23b1bf6f3d3b9213"
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 HB 815 (2017) — State Retirement and Pension System - Membership Elections

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0815f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- B. Barnes (Chair — primary (person)
- Joint Committee on Pensions) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {504161/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-16** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-24** Hearing 3/30 at 8:30 a.m.
- **2017-03-29** Hearing canceled
- **2017-03-29** Hearing 3/30 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 272 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bbc9ea02-08a5-41dd-a1d0-bf9cfc14c8d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).