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+type: "Bill"
+title: "State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners – Cease and Desist Orders and Civil Penalties"
+description: "State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners – Cease and Desist Orders and Civil Penalties"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 545"
+citation: "Maryland HB 545 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Adams", "Anderton", "Arentz", "Beitzel", "Boyce", "Buckel", "C. Watson", "Charkoudian", "Corderman", "Ebersole", "Griffith", "Hartman", "Hornberger", "Impallaria", "Jacobs", "Johnson", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Krebs", "Long", "Mangione", "McComas", "McKay", "Metzgar", "Moon", "Otto", "P. Young", "Palakovich Carr", "Parrott", "R. Watson", "Reilly", "Shetty", "Shoemaker", "Szeliga", "Wilson"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2020-01-27"
+last_action: "2020-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e8791d8a-5a41-4612-8a13-06e10ab3a4ed"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0545?ys=2020RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "a786710c3fa8312e51035e6c20e00200f8d2cf36f38075ea43c9c830e3927de4"
+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 545 (2020) — State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners – Cease and Desist Orders and Civil Penalties
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners – Cease and Desist Orders and Civil Penalties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_243_hb0545t.pdf)
+2. **First - State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners - Practicing Veterinary Medicine Without a License - Cease and Desist Order and Civil Penalty** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0545f.pdf)
+3. **Third - State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners – Cease and Desist Orders and Civil Penalties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0545t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Adams — primary (person)
+- Anderton — primary (person)
+- Arentz — primary (person)
+- Beitzel — primary (person)
+- Boyce — primary (person)
+- Buckel — primary (person)
+- C. Watson — primary (person)
+- Charkoudian — primary (person)
+- Corderman — primary (person)
+- Ebersole — primary (person)
+- Griffith — primary (person)
+- Hartman — primary (person)
+- Hornberger — primary (person)
+- Impallaria — primary (person)
+- Jacobs — primary (person)
+- Johnson — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Kipke — primary (person)
+- Krebs — primary (person)
+- Long — primary (person)
+- Mangione — primary (person)
+- McComas — primary (person)
+- McKay — primary (person)
+- Metzgar — primary (person)
+- Moon — primary (person)
+- Otto — primary (person)
+- P. Young — primary (person)
+- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
+- Parrott — primary (person)
+- R. Watson — primary (person)
+- Reilly — primary (person)
+- Shetty — primary (person)
+- Shoemaker — primary (person)
+- Szeliga — primary (person)
+- Wilson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-27** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-30** Reassigned to Environment and Transportation
+- **2020-02-03** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2020-03-02** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2020-03-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-06** Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-16** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-16** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **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 243 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e8791d8a-5a41-4612-8a13-06e10ab3a4ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+