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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Criminal Law - Animal Cruelty - Applicability"
+description: "Criminal Law - Animal Cruelty - Applicability"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 790"
+citation: "Maryland SB 790 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Abuse", "Animals", "Crimes and Punishments"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Smith"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-02-03"
+last_action: "2017-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c709a171-3c33-46b1-9ff9-86ff63dc36b2"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB790&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "c57b0e42e9041bc8de29d15c642cf649d05b8c4f186b21f3e03651b8c18aa97c"
+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 790 (2017) — Criminal Law - Animal Cruelty - Applicability
+
+## 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/sb0790f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **136–1** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Smith — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-03** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-08** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-02-27** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-01** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-03-03** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-06** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-16** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (136-1) `passage`
+- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
+- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 187 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c709a171-3c33-46b1-9ff9-86ff63dc36b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+