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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Anne Arundel County and Harford County - Court Dog and Child Witness Pilot Program - Extension"
+description: "Anne Arundel County and Harford County - Court Dog and Child Witness Pilot Program - Extension"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 124"
+citation: "Maryland SB 124 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Courts and Court Personnel - Local", "Administrative Office of the Courts", "Anne Arundel County", "Circuit Courts", "Dogs", "Harford County", "Minors", "Names", "Reports", "Sunset", "Witnesses"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Simonaire"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-18"
+last_action: "2019-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3d3e2e3-4274-4e09-a900-f05f872d3269"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB124&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "acc6f5751848810ad61b2edb1aa83dfb7a9a02a2c841f1e155709a125b0b4d5b"
+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 124 (2019) — Anne Arundel County and Harford County - Court Dog and Child Witness Pilot Program - Extension
+
+## 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/sb0124f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Simonaire — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-18** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-18** Hearing 1/30 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2019-02-04** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-05** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-02-07** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
+- **2019-02-08** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-18** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-03** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-04-05** Third Reading Passed (132-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
+- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 466 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c3d3e2e3-4274-4e09-a900-f05f872d3269`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+