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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Agriculture - Animal Shelters - Standards of Care and Protocol Implementation and Enforcement"
+description: "Agriculture - Animal Shelters - Standards of Care and Protocol Implementation and Enforcement"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 626"
+citation: "Maryland HB 626 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Agriculture", "Agriculture", "Department of", "Animals", "Dogs", "Health", "Rules and Regulations", "Veterinarians"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gilchrist"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-30"
+last_action: "2017-05-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2827b9b9-b9f7-4418-8e2a-f47d021ee957"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB626&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "6e18dfa6ca9c1c494750d4d26b7ceb57bfdef97969d88ca93b16fd45b9b84c91"
+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 626 (2017) — Agriculture - Animal Shelters - Standards of Care and Protocol Implementation and Enforcement
+
+## 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/hb0626f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **130–5** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gilchrist — primary (person)
+- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
+- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
+- Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Chang — cosponsor (person)
+- Folden — cosponsor (person)
+- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
+- Frush — cosponsor (person)
+- Healey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
+- Lam — cosponsor (person)
+- Long — cosponsor (person)
+- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
+- McComas — cosponsor (person)
+- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Miele — cosponsor (person)
+- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
+- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Rose — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Vogt — cosponsor (person)
+- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-30** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-02-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-28** Favorable with Amendments {730116/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-02** Third Reading Passed (130-5) `passage`
+- **2017-03-03** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-31** Returned Passed
+- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 409 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2827b9b9-b9f7-4418-8e2a-f47d021ee957`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+