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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Crimes Against Animals – Interference With Equines"
+description: "Crimes Against Animals – Interference With Equines"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 171"
+citation: "Maryland HB 171 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Boyce", "Buckel", "Cardin", "Cox", "Guyton", "Hornberger", "K. Young", "Lehman", "McComas", "Metzgar", "Morgan", "Pippy", "R. Lewis"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-15"
+last_action: "2020-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e8aabd7f-1b0c-42da-87cb-d77ef53c6a67"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0171?ys=2020RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "e58bf5714934f877ee8c223c62d445ad0b88cc2c09b2d279bc2b39d4b57d8844"
+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 171 (2020) — Crimes Against Animals – Interference With Equines
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Crimes Against Animals – Interference With Equines** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_93_hb0171t.pdf)
+2. **First - Crimes Against Animals - Interference With Livestock** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0171f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Crimes Against Animals – Interference With Equines** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0171t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Boyce — primary (person)
+- Buckel — primary (person)
+- Cardin — primary (person)
+- Cox — primary (person)
+- Guyton — primary (person)
+- Hornberger — primary (person)
+- K. Young — primary (person)
+- Lehman — primary (person)
+- McComas — primary (person)
+- Metzgar — primary (person)
+- Morgan — primary (person)
+- Pippy — primary (person)
+- R. Lewis — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-15** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-15** Hearing 1/23 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2020-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-10** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2020-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-13** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-15** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-15** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-15** Second Reading Passed
+- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-17** Returned Passed
+- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 93 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e8aabd7f-1b0c-42da-87cb-d77ef53c6a67`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+