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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Criminal Law - Animal Abuse Emergency Compensation Fund - Establishment"
+description: "Criminal Law - Animal Abuse Emergency Compensation Fund - Establishment"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 941"
+citation: "Maryland HB 941 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Criminal Law - Procedure", "Abuse", "Animals", "Clerks of Court", "Crime Control and Prevention", "Governor's Office of", "District Courts", "Fines", "Revenue and Taxes", "Sunset"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["A. Miller"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-02-06"
+last_action: "2017-05-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/08dcc99c-8f20-4cc9-a00e-a7f195a839ff"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB941&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "153685995013cbcf8a15148b002c66bfd8d9d189a9fe4ec91e239d19a3ec63e8"
+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 941 (2017) — Criminal Law - Animal Abuse Emergency Compensation Fund - Establishment
+
+## 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/hb0941f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **132–7** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- A. Miller — primary (person)
+- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
+- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
+- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Chang — cosponsor (person)
+- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
+- Frush — cosponsor (person)
+- Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
+- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
+- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
+- Moon — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
+- Vogt — cosponsor (person)
+- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-06** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-08** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {274162/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-18** Third Reading Passed (132-7) `passage`
+- **2017-03-20** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-07** Returned Passed
+- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 410 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/08dcc99c-8f20-4cc9-a00e-a7f195a839ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+