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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Criminal Law - Crimes Relating to Animals - Conviction and Sentencing"
+description: "Criminal Law - Crimes Relating to Animals - Conviction and Sentencing"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 152"
+citation: "Maryland SB 152 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["West"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-09-29"
+last_action: "2025-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbec466a-c24d-4574-a2b8-7a53529cb3f7"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0152?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "021e8b01d0c4222c8b1be75f1cc9b0119ebc432ce41803282acf9bc9032d3226"
+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 (2025) — Criminal Law - Crimes Relating to Animals - Conviction and Sentencing
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Criminal Law - Crimes Relating to Animals - Conviction and Sentencing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_157_sb0152t.pdf)
+2. **First - Criminal Law - Crimes Relating to Animals - Conviction and Sentencing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0152f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Criminal Law - Crimes Relating to Animals - Conviction and Sentencing** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0152t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **131–1** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- West — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-09-29** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2025-01-08** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-02** Hearing 1/09 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-03** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-04** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-07** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-31** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
+- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 157 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bbec466a-c24d-4574-a2b8-7a53529cb3f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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