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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Emergency Veterinary Care - Immunity From Liability"
+description: "Emergency Veterinary Care - Immunity From Liability"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 216"
+citation: "Maryland HB 216 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Civil Actions and Procedures", "Agriculture", "Animals", "Emergency Medical Services", "Fees", "Liability", "Veterinarians"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lam"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-01-20"
+last_action: "2017-05-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59e68338-3dd3-41cb-b246-2159ff476e26"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB216&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "de5535cd26e7527aa14e2dcc87a845384afeaaa124c8fed860087805548e039e"
+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 216 (2017) — Emergency Veterinary Care - Immunity From Liability
+
+## 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/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0216t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **137–1** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **140–1** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lam — primary (person)
+- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Barve — cosponsor (person)
+- Chang — cosponsor (person)
+- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
+- Glass — cosponsor (person)
+- Grammer — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
+- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
+- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
+- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
+- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Stein — cosponsor (person)
+- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-20** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-23** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-02-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-21** Favorable with Amendments {110014/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-02-23** Third Reading Passed (137-1) `passage`
+- **2017-02-24** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-07** Favorable with Amendments {198470/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (140-1) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
+- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 412 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/59e68338-3dd3-41cb-b246-2159ff476e26`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+