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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Veterans Affairs - Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program - Establishment"
+description: "Veterans Affairs - Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program - Establishment"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 441"
+citation: "Maryland SB 441 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Social Services - Generally", "State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Animals", "Dogs", "General Assembly", "Gifts", "Job Training", "Names", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Reports", "Revenue and Taxes", "Rules and Regulations", "Veterans Affairs", "Department of", "Veterans"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Simonaire"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-01-30"
+last_action: "2017-05-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3125a752-89b4-4b2d-9f3f-9c1fef5c28ef"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB441&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "38aeb4cda2128a983cd5bce09afb46c8cfd4a2fe5fdbb09374ea9a6a37412898"
+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 441 (2017) — Veterans Affairs - Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program - 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/sb/sb0441f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Simonaire — primary (person)
+- Astle — cosponsor (person)
+- Bates — cosponsor (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Brochin — cosponsor (person)
+- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Conway — cosponsor (person)
+- Currie — cosponsor (person)
+- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
+- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
+- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hough — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
+- Kasemeyer — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
+- King — cosponsor (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee — cosponsor (person)
+- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
+- Manno — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Muse — cosponsor (person)
+- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
+- Norman — cosponsor (person)
+- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
+- Ready — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+- Salling — cosponsor (person)
+- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Waugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
+- Zucker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-30** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-30** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-07** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-08** Favorable with Amendments {214235/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-08** Floor Amendment {243522/1 (Senator Simonaire) Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2017-03-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-10** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-10** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {626087/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (138-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
+- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 416 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3125a752-89b4-4b2d-9f3f-9c1fef5c28ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+