---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alternate Contributory Pension Selection - Return to Employment"
description: "Alternate Contributory Pension Selection - Return to Employment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 265"
citation: "Maryland HB 265 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "Armed Forces", "Public Employees", "Retirement Systems", "State Employees", "Teachers", "Time", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Barnes (Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-25"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/855e33a7-c333-45af-a37d-7776f031c0b5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB265&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "331cc6ab4a38433c807c8bc90de4365a2479891af0b1e481b5095a99e5d8e181"
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 265 (2019) — Alternate Contributory Pension Selection - Return to Employment

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0265f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-25** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-01-30** Hearing canceled
- **2019-01-30** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-25** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-26** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-26** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-02-28** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-01** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-18** Hearing 3/28 at 8:30 p.m.
- **2019-03-19** Hearing canceled
- **2019-03-19** Hearing 3/28 at 8:30 a.m.
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (43-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 205 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/855e33a7-c333-45af-a37d-7776f031c0b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).