# Maryland SB 0612: State Retirement and Pension System - Deferred Vested Former Members - Return to Service

Maryland SB 0612, State Retirement and Pension System - Deferred Vested Former Members - Return to Service, is a 2025 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by M. Jackson; status signed, last action 2025-05-20 (Approved by the Governor - Chapter 771); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MD-SB0612-2025RS
- As of: 2026-10-17
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Bill: Maryland SB 0612
- State: Maryland
- Session: 2025 Regular Session
- Title: State Retirement and Pension System - Deferred Vested Former Members - Return to Service
- Status: signed
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2025-01-28
- Last action: 2025-05-20, Approved by the Governor - Chapter 771
- Sponsor: M. Jackson
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: State Government - Pensions and Retirement, Correctional Officers, Law Enforcement -see also- SRO; Sheriffs; State Police, Retirement -see also- Mandatory Retirement, State Employees, State Police, Department of, Work, Labor, and Employment -see also- JobTrn; Leave; etc.
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 2 (179 yes, 0 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 1

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Pension rules for returning Maryland public workers: mixed, medium. Beginning July 1, 2025, Maryland sets pension rules for qualifying former state police, correctional, and law enforcement retirement system members. Returning workers follow the same requirements as members on June 30, 2011, who remained members on July 1, 2011. They must have belonged to the relev…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: M. Jackson

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-04-07 | House | Third Reading Passed | pass | 137 | 0 | 3 |
| 2025-03-17 | Senate | Third Reading Passed | pass | 42 | 0 |   |

## Actions (13)

- 2025-05-20: Approved by the Governor - Chapter 771
- 2025-04-07: Returned Passed (Senate)
- 2025-04-07: Third Reading Passed (137-0) (House)
- 2025-04-04: Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed (House)
- 2025-04-04: Favorable Report by Appropriations (House)
- 2025-03-19: Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m. (House)
- 2025-03-17: Referred Appropriations (House)
- 2025-03-17: Third Reading Passed (42-0) (Senate)
- 2025-03-14: Second Reading Passed with Amendments (Senate)
- 2025-03-14: Favorable with Amendments {933720/1 Adopted (Senate)
- 2025-03-14: Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation (Senate)
- 2025-01-30: Hearing 2/13 at 9:00 a.m. (Senate)
- 2025-01-28: First Reading Budget and Taxation (Senate)

## Bill text

- Enacted, 2025-05-20: [PDF](https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_771_sb0612t.pdf)
- Third Reading, 2025-03-14: [PDF](https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0612t.pdf)
- First Reading, 2025-01-28: [PDF](https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0612f.pdf)

## Related bills

- HB 0384: Maryland Disability Service Animal Program - Established (vetoed)
- SB 0227: Workers' Compensation - Payment From Uninsured Employers' Fund - Revisions (vetoed)
- HB 0482: Occupational Licensing and Certification - Criminal History - Predetermination Review Process (vetoed)
- SB 0157: Maryland Disability Service Animal Program - Established (vetoed)
- HB 1294: Commercial Law - Credit Regulation - Earned Wage Access and Credit Modernization (became law)
- HB 0228: Maryland Veterans Trust – Assistance to Members of the Maryland National Guard (signed)

## Sources
- [Enacted (PDF)](https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_771_sb0612t.pdf)
- [Third Reading (PDF)](https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0612t.pdf)
- [First Reading (PDF)](https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0612f.pdf)

## Related
- [HB 0384: Maryland Disability Service Animal Program - Established](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MD-HB0384-2025RS)
- [SB 0227: Workers' Compensation - Payment From Uninsured Employers' Fund - Revisions](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MD-SB0227-2025RS)
- [HB 0482: Occupational Licensing and Certification - Criminal History - Predetermination…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MD-HB0482-2025RS)
- [SB 0157: Maryland Disability Service Animal Program - Established](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MD-SB0157-2025RS)
- [HB 1294: Commercial Law - Credit Regulation - Earned Wage Access and Credit Modernization](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MD-HB1294-2025RS)
- [HB 0228: Maryland Veterans Trust – Assistance to Members of the Maryland National Guard](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MD-HB0228-2025RS)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MD-SB0612-2025RS (as of 2026-10-17).