---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program Fund - Alteration of Program"
description: "Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program Fund - Alteration of Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 242"
citation: "Maryland HB 242 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Social Services - Generally", "Animals", "Disclosure", "Dogs", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Revenue and Taxes", "Veterans Affairs", "Department of", "Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Simonaire"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-18"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d050c1c9-2777-444e-9e7a-88f900bd36d3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB242&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "538e6f9e3602218ba016c9e8a49c527810fbc3878eb21227590504b661ab5584"
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 242 (2018) — Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program Fund - Alteration of Program

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0242f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Simonaire — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-18** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** Hearing 2/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-14** Favorable with Amendments {716588/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-16** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-19** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 153 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d050c1c9-2777-444e-9e7a-88f900bd36d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).