---
type: "Bill"
title: "Veterinary Practitioners - Animal Cruelty and Animal Fighting - Reporting"
description: "Veterinary Practitioners - Animal Cruelty and Animal Fighting - Reporting"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1463"
citation: "Maryland HB 1463 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Abuse", "Animals", "Committees and Commissions", "Liability", "Rules and Regulations", "Veterinarians"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5386ab3-00ff-48a7-aa32-27355e700087"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1463&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "b41491d59a306f87c022eaea74216209d1f623cfa62acb2657be05a379a9e0d5"
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 1463 (2017) — Veterinary Practitioners - Animal Cruelty and Animal Fighting - Reporting

## 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/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1463f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **118–15** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Frush — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Ciliberti — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Vogt — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-10** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {760315/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (118-15) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 417 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5386ab3-00ff-48a7-aa32-27355e700087`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).