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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program Fund - Alteration of Program"
+description: "Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program Fund - Alteration of Program"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 242"
+citation: "Maryland HB 242 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Social Services - Generally", "Animals", "Disclosure", "Dogs", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Revenue and Taxes", "Veterans Affairs", "Department of", "Veterans"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Simonaire"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-18"
+last_action: "2018-04-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d050c1c9-2777-444e-9e7a-88f900bd36d3"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB242&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "538e6f9e3602218ba016c9e8a49c527810fbc3878eb21227590504b661ab5584"
+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 242 (2018) — Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program Fund - Alteration of Program
+
+## 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/hb0242f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Simonaire — primary (person)
+- Angel — cosponsor (person)
+- Barron — cosponsor (person)
+- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
+- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
+- Miele — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Saab — cosponsor (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-18** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-24** Hearing 2/01 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-14** Favorable with Amendments {716588/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-02-16** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
+- **2018-02-19** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 153 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d050c1c9-2777-444e-9e7a-88f900bd36d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+