---
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: "HB 886"
citation: "Maryland HB 886 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Forbes"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e62f6049-cd68-424d-9115-e5a723912ca7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0886?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "34ffc702f6d83c16e9d9641a93a91b2b360f996a6310a4ea96147e7d054d9497"
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 886 (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_770_hb0886t.pdf)
2. **First - State Retirement and Pension System – Deferred Vested Former Members – Return to Service** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0886f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Retirement and Pension System – Deferred Vested Former Members – Return to Service** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0886t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21** Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `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 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 770 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e62f6049-cd68-424d-9115-e5a723912ca7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).