---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Retirement and Pension System – Alterations and Clarifications"
description: "State Retirement and Pension System – Alterations and Clarifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1034"
citation: "Maryland HB 1034 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Forbes"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6627f44e-4f88-4a03-acc6-0777bb9cbc57"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1034?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "5e016cce4ae2e732c02bab7d863036ae236b03a70937861585a4cde033f7067d"
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 1034 (2025) — State Retirement and Pension System – Alterations and Clarifications

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Retirement and Pension System – Alterations and Clarifications** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_767_hb1034t.pdf)
2. **First - State Retirement and Pension System – Alterations and Clarifications** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1034f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Retirement and Pension System – Alterations and Clarifications** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1034t.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Chair, Joint Committee on Pensions — primary (organization)
- Forbes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21** Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 767 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6627f44e-4f88-4a03-acc6-0777bb9cbc57`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).