---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Law - Animal Abuse Emergency Compensation Fund - Establishment"
description: "Criminal Law - Animal Abuse Emergency Compensation Fund - Establishment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 941"
citation: "Maryland HB 941 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Procedure", "Abuse", "Animals", "Clerks of Court", "Crime Control and Prevention", "Governor's Office of", "District Courts", "Fines", "Revenue and Taxes", "Sunset"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Miller"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-06"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/08dcc99c-8f20-4cc9-a00e-a7f195a839ff"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB941&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "153685995013cbcf8a15148b002c66bfd8d9d189a9fe4ec91e239d19a3ec63e8"
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 941 (2017) — Criminal Law - Animal Abuse Emergency Compensation Fund - Establishment

## 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/hb0941f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **132–7** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- A. Miller — primary (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
- Frush — cosponsor (person)
- Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Vogt — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-06** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {274162/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-18** Third Reading Passed (132-7) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 410 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/08dcc99c-8f20-4cc9-a00e-a7f195a839ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).