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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Humane Adoption of Companion Animals Used in Research Act of 2018"
+description: "Humane Adoption of Companion Animals Used in Research Act of 2018"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 675"
+citation: "Maryland SB 675 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Agriculture", "Public Health", "Adoption - see also- Parents and Guardians", "Agriculture", "Department of", "Animals", "Animal Shelters", "Contracts", "Dogs", "Industry and Technology", "Medical Research", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Reports"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hough"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-02-01"
+last_action: "2018-04-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9758cd8-a7fd-4d17-980e-4896d37f1c3d"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB675&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "bd7374ae78d9a4f877d22e1dd89100e5f958e97523521c740398ce39843d8e42"
+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 675 (2018) — Humane Adoption of Companion Animals Used in Research Act of 2018
+
+## 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/sb/sb0675f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
+- Floor amendment Hough /273925/1 — **16–26** (fail) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hough — primary (person)
+- Astle — cosponsor (person)
+- Bates — cosponsor (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Brochin — cosponsor (person)
+- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
+- King — cosponsor (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee — cosponsor (person)
+- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
+- Manno — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Muse — cosponsor (person)
+- Norman — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
+- Ready — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+- Salling — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-01** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-02** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-05** Hearing canceled
+- **2018-02-05** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {504634/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-13** Floor Amendment {273925/1 (Senator Hough) Rejected (16-26) `amendment-failure`
+- **2018-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-15** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-15** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-23** Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-04** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-04** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 236 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b9758cd8-a7fd-4d17-980e-4896d37f1c3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+