---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Retirement and Pension System - Deferred Vested Former Members - Return to Service"
description: "State Retirement and Pension System - Deferred Vested Former Members - Return to Service"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 612"
citation: "Maryland SB 612 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Jackson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-28"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85fce467-d2dd-42af-87d1-1436117b9ee7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0612?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "6f2eb7dd0f5a4342da817f0404a3d9678f5eb1be22d4e4c73d50b633ca74ffab"
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 SB 612 (2025) — State Retirement and Pension System - Deferred Vested Former Members - Return to Service

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Retirement and Pension System - Deferred Vested Former Members - Return to Service** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_771_sb0612t.pdf)
2. **First - State Retirement and Pension System - Deferred Vested Former Members - Return to Service** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0612f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Retirement and Pension System - Deferred Vested Former Members - Return to Service** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0612t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair, Joint Committee on Pensions — primary (organization)
- M. Jackson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-28** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Hearing 2/13 at 9:00 a.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 771 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/85fce467-d2dd-42af-87d1-1436117b9ee7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).