---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency Veterinary Care - Immunity From Liability"
description: "Emergency Veterinary Care - Immunity From Liability"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 216"
citation: "Maryland HB 216 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil Actions and Procedures", "Agriculture", "Animals", "Emergency Medical Services", "Fees", "Liability", "Veterinarians"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lam"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59e68338-3dd3-41cb-b246-2159ff476e26"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB216&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "de5535cd26e7527aa14e2dcc87a845384afeaaa124c8fed860087805548e039e"
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 216 (2017) — Emergency Veterinary Care - Immunity From Liability

## 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/hb0216t.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **137–1** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **140–1** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Lam — primary (person)
- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
- B. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Barve — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Glass — cosponsor (person)
- Grammer — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-20** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Favorable with Amendments {110014/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-23** Third Reading Passed (137-1) `passage`
- **2017-02-24** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Favorable with Amendments {198470/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (140-1) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 412 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/59e68338-3dd3-41cb-b246-2159ff476e26`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).