CHAPTER NUMBER: 148 
File Code: State Pensions and Retirement
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 488  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Senators Amoss, Miller, Hoffman, Lawlah, Ruben, Munson, Hogan,
Kasemeyer, Currie, Boozer, and
 Stone
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
 Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Membership
 
Authorizing Maryland Transportation Authority police officers to
become members of the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System;
providing for an exception for officers who transferred from the
Employees' Retirement System to the Employees' Pension System on or
after December 1, 1996; requiring individuals for whom membership in
the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System is optional to apply for
membership, in writing, with the State Retirement Agency on or before
a specified date; etc.
Senate Action
- 1/17
 - First Reading Budget and Taxation
 - 1/22
 - Hearing 2/6 at 8:30 a.m.
 - 2/24
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation
 - 2/25
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 2/27
 - Third Reading Passed (47-0)
 - 4/5
 - Senate Concur - House Amendments
 -      Third Reading Passed (46-0)
 -      Passed Enrolled
 - 4/29
 - Signed by the Governor Chapter 148
 
House Action
- 2/28
 - First Reading Appropriations
 - 3/5
 - Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 4/2
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations
 - 3/30
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/31
 - Floor Committee Amendment Adopted
 -      Special Order p.m.  session (Delegate Donoghue) Adopted
 -      Third Reading Passed with Amendments (126-1)
 
- Sponsored by:
 - Senator William H. Amoss, District 35
 - Senator F. Vernon Boozer, District 9
 - Senator Ulysses Currie, District 25
 - Senator Barbara A. Hoffman, District 42
 - Senator Patrick J. Hogan, District 39
 - Senator Edward J. Kasemeyer, District 12
 - Senator Gloria Gary Lawlah, District 26
 - Senator Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., District 27
 - Senator Donald F. Munson, District 2
 - Senator Ida G. Ruben, District 20
 - Senator Norman R. Stone, Jr., District 7
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - LAW ENFORCEMENT -see also- STATE POLICE, DEPT. OF
 - RETIREMENT SYSTEMS -see also- MANDATORY RETIREMENT
 - TRANSPORTATION, DEPARTMENT OF
 
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
 -   State Personnel and Pensions
 - (
 26-201 ,
 26-202 ,
 26-203.1 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF) 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments: 
- Senate
 - Number: 769401/1 (PDF) Offered on: FEBRUARY 25, 1997  at: 10:44
 Status: Adopted         
 - House 
 - Number: 454231/1 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 4, 1997      at: 12:18
 Status: Adopted         
 - Number: 764536/1 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 3, 1997      at: 11:35
 Status: Adopted