---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Retirement and Pension System - Maryland Pension Administration System - Member Contributions"
description: "State Retirement and Pension System - Maryland Pension Administration System - Member Contributions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 63"
citation: "Maryland HB 63 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "Committees and Commissions", "Data", "Interest", "Liability", "Penalties and Sentences", "Retirement Systems", "Revenue and Taxes", "Salaries and Compensation", "State Employees", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Barnes (Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20ba3cea-9aa4-40f6-8ae0-10f6b4e26b5a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB63&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "99ece0c9002f76e121b11f60e9c75f1c111c0084c9b0ef81d8392391e8d71acb"
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 63 (2019) — State Retirement and Pension System - Maryland Pension Administration System - Member Contributions

## 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/hb0063f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-17** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Favorable with Amendments {954561/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-14** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-14** 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 203 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/20ba3cea-9aa4-40f6-8ae0-10f6b4e26b5a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).