---
type: "Bill"
title: "Agriculture - Animal Shelters - Standards of Care and Protocol Implementation and Enforcement"
description: "Agriculture - Animal Shelters - Standards of Care and Protocol Implementation and Enforcement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 626"
citation: "Maryland HB 626 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Agriculture", "Department of", "Animals", "Dogs", "Health", "Rules and Regulations", "Veterinarians"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gilchrist"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2827b9b9-b9f7-4418-8e2a-f47d021ee957"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB626&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "6e18dfa6ca9c1c494750d4d26b7ceb57bfdef97969d88ca93b16fd45b9b84c91"
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 626 (2017) — Agriculture - Animal Shelters - Standards of Care and Protocol Implementation and Enforcement

## 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/hb0626f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **130–5** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Gilchrist — primary (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Folden — cosponsor (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
- Frush — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Vogt — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-30** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** Favorable with Amendments {730116/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-02** Third Reading Passed (130-5) `passage`
- **2017-03-03** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 409 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2827b9b9-b9f7-4418-8e2a-f47d021ee957`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).