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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Business Regulation – Retail Pet Stores"
+description: "Business Regulation – Retail Pet Stores"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 1662"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1662 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Business Regulation and Occupations", "Agriculture", "Department of", "Animals", "Animal Shelters", "Citations", "Committees and Commissions", "Exemptions", "Inspections", "Licenses", "Retail Sales", "Revenue and Taxes", "Rules and Regulations", "Time", "Veterinarians"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kramer"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-02-09"
+last_action: "2018-04-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec536561-91fc-4ea5-8f47-ead7e49b1a76"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1662&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "a494d4f11e21bf4cca838c471f25fb74ec9873ac7d1e6bf1916d550f731c8e1e"
+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 1662 (2018) — Business Regulation – Retail Pet Stores
+
+## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1662f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **123–11** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **129–8** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kramer — primary (person)
+- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
+- Aumann — cosponsor (person)
+- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
+- Barve — cosponsor (person)
+- Branch — cosponsor (person)
+- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
+- Busch — cosponsor (person)
+- Carey — cosponsor (person)
+- Chang — cosponsor (person)
+- Clippinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
+- Frick — cosponsor (person)
+- Frush — cosponsor (person)
+- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
+- Impallaria — cosponsor (person)
+- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Lam — cosponsor (person)
+- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
+- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
+- Mautz — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Miele — cosponsor (person)
+- Moon — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
+- Stein — cosponsor (person)
+- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
+- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-09** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-09** Hearing 3/12 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {213390/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-15** Special Order until next session (Delegate Rey) Adopted
+- **2018-03-15** Floor Amendment {973520/1 (Delegate Rey) Rejected `amendment-failure`
+- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-16** Third Reading Passed (123-11) `passage`
+- **2018-03-19** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-05** Favorable with Amendments {447276/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (44-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-07** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2018-04-07** Third Reading Passed (129-8) `passage`
+- **2018-04-07** Passed Enrolled
+- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 237 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ec536561-91fc-4ea5-8f47-ead7e49b1a76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+