---
type: "Bill"
title: "Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Military Service Credit Eligibility - Helicopter Pilots"
description: "Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Military Service Credit Eligibility - Helicopter Pilots"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 789"
citation: "Maryland HB 789 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Forbes", "Griffith"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2026-02-04"
last_action: "2026-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0e533b6-264a-4431-ac2e-2173e2177062"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0789?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "f619f8f33abc716647cf5aced5640f0bb0dd630d806e85068cc6ad37e74a882a"
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 789 (2026) — Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Military Service Credit Eligibility - Helicopter Pilots

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Military Service Credit Eligibility - Helicopter Pilots** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_296_hb0789t.pdf)
2. **First - Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Military Service Credit Eligibility** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0789f.pdf)
3. **Third - Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Military Service Credit Eligibility - Helicopter Pilots** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0789t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **125–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Forbes — primary (person)
- Griffith — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-04** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-17** Hearing 3/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-03-18** Hearing canceled
- **2026-03-18** Hearing 3/18 at 12:45 p.m.
- **2026-03-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-20** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-03-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-23** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-01** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-01** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2026-04-28** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 296 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d0e533b6-264a-4431-ac2e-2173e2177062`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).