---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Retirement and Pension System - Service Credit for Unused Sick Leave"
description: "State Retirement and Pension System - Service Credit for Unused Sick Leave"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 861"
citation: "Maryland HB 861 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Pensions and Retirement", "Correctional Officers", "Leave", "Retirement Systems", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Barnes (Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8dd4773b-66ff-4ac7-b53f-ca95cef00c8b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB861&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "ed058da09ce9f41d1a585af83827b1a9e680dffc18073bb490ec2528cf9e9bc0"
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 861 (2019) — State Retirement and Pension System - Service Credit for Unused Sick Leave

## 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/hb0861f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (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 Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-14** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `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.
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (42-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 347 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8dd4773b-66ff-4ac7-b53f-ca95cef00c8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).