---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Retirement and Pension System - Board of Trustees - Responsibilities and Duties"
description: "State Retirement and Pension System - Board of Trustees - Responsibilities and Duties"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 625"
citation: "Maryland HB 625 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Forbes"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-01-25"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89ad2dd9-834f-42c2-9f9b-aa73dfde0647"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0625?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "5284d327b8206e7b2fccc2b9d1a30c643e792734788a1ad0d40daded4a74e8b1"
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 625 (2024) — State Retirement and Pension System - Board of Trustees - Responsibilities and Duties

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Retirement and Pension System - Board of Trustees - Responsibilities and Duties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_665_hb0625t.pdf)
2. **First - State Retirement and Pension System – Personal Statement of Benefits – Authorized Format** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0625f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Retirement and Pension System - Board of Trustees - Responsibilities and Duties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0625t.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.

- **2024-01-25** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-01** Hearing canceled
- **2024-02-01** Hearing 2/13 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-20** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-02-22** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-02-26** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-25** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-26** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-28** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 665 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/89ad2dd9-834f-42c2-9f9b-aa73dfde0647`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).