---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Police Retirement System - Employment of Retirees - Clarifications"
description: "State Police Retirement System - Employment of Retirees - Clarifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 862"
citation: "Maryland HB 862 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "Committees and Commissions", "Communications", "Law Enforcement", "Notices", "Retirement Systems", "Salaries and Compensation", "State Police", "Department of", "Time", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Barnes (Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a949641-b488-48ab-aca4-4767a5dac7e4"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB862&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "c798b60a48432e85625672eef32d41636e8a1731a11128565f898e455790726b"
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 862 (2019) — State Police Retirement System - Employment of Retirees - Clarifications

## 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/hb0862f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Favorable with Amendments {184662/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-14** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-15** 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.
- **2019-03-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Favorable with Amendments {399834/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 209 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9a949641-b488-48ab-aca4-4767a5dac7e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).