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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Criminal Law – Cruelty to Animals – Payment of Costs"
+description: "Criminal Law – Cruelty to Animals – Payment of Costs"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 152"
+citation: "Maryland SB 152 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Criminal Law - Procedure", "Abuse", "Animals", "Bonds", "Crimes and Punishments", "District Courts", "Fees", "Fines", "Forfeiture", "Hearings", "Notices", "Petitions", "Search and Seizure"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ready"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-21"
+last_action: "2019-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83814550-cd8e-44ab-953e-33b63e0efff1"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB152&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "46ea3943e793e92b2dc5ee939ef3a029d8ac99cbecb8fae939c8601a1a570318"
+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 152 (2019) — Criminal Law – Cruelty to Animals – Payment of Costs
+
+## 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/sb0152f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ready — primary (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
+- Elfreth — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
+- Lam — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
+- Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-21** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-23** Hearing 1/31 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-02-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-12** Favorable with Amendments {538973/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-02-14** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
+- **2019-02-15** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-13** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-29** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-29** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 62 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/83814550-cd8e-44ab-953e-33b63e0efff1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+