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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: "SB 269"
+citation: "Maryland SB 269 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Civil Actions and Procedures", "Agriculture", "Animals", "Emergency Medical Services", "Fees", "Liability", "Veterinarians"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lee"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-20"
+last_action: "2017-05-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e2fdf09-edcd-4b15-978d-ae17205a5444"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB269&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "6c100820602bcc2102ba152ce038cab214446deebca000ce8275608f882c8867"
+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 SB 269 (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/sb/sb0269f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **137–1** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lee — primary (person)
+- Astle — cosponsor (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Conway — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
+- King — cosponsor (person)
+- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- Muse — cosponsor (person)
+- Ready — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+- Salling — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-20** First Reading Judicial Proceedings and Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/09 at 1:00 p.m. (Judicial Proceedings)
+- **2017-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {718574/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-15** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-17** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-07** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (137-1) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
+- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 411 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0e2fdf09-edcd-4b15-978d-ae17205a5444`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+