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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program - Therapy Horses"
+description: "Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program - Therapy Horses"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 105"
+citation: "Maryland SB 105 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Social Services - Generally", "Administrative Agencies", "Animals", "Armed Forces", "Comptroller", "Data", "Death", "Dogs", "Federal Government", "Fees", "Gifts", "Internet", "Investments", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Names", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Notices", "Revenue and Taxes", "Rules and Regulations", "Safety", "Salaries and Compensation", "Telecommunications and Information Technology", "Veterans"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Simonaire"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-14"
+last_action: "2019-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1f65f5f-28fd-4a85-940a-f4ca26f2d9e4"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB105&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "fae5e3afe420032d795657539f358bd993888529380b597b2a08d826064e2fc6"
+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 105 (2019) — Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program - Therapy Horses
+
+## 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/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0105f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **130–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Simonaire — primary (person)
+- Bailey — cosponsor (person)
+- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
+- Ellis — cosponsor (person)
+- Gallion — cosponsor (person)
+- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
+- Lam — cosponsor (person)
+- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-14** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-16** Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-01-18** Hearing canceled
+- **2019-01-18** Hearing 1/30 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2019-02-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-05** Favorable with Amendments {954535/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-02-07** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2019-02-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-12** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-21** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-22** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-22** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-03-25** Third Reading Passed (130-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-26** Returned Passed
+- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 465 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a1f65f5f-28fd-4a85-940a-f4ca26f2d9e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+