---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Law – Cruelty to Animals – Payment of Costs"
description: "Criminal Law – Cruelty to Animals – Payment of Costs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 135"
citation: "Maryland HB 135 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Criminal Law - Procedure", "Abuse", "Animals", "Bonds", "Crimes and Punishments", "District Courts", "Fines", "Forfeiture", "Hearings", "Notices", "Penalties and Sentences", "Petitions", "Prices", "Search and Seizure"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Moon"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-21"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e9f1ac2b-86b7-48a0-8739-299b10b0ed62"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB135&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "9d6c29146fad5ec411fe6d3f4f77b2738e2891ceb223e2965f70b7c5d6b6d62c"
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 135 (2019) — Criminal Law – Cruelty to Animals – Payment of Costs

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0135f.pdf)

## Votes

- No motion given — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Moon — primary (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- Cardin — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Crutchfield — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
- Guyton — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- McKay — cosponsor (person)
- Parrott — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Shetty — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Reassigned to Judiciary
- **2019-01-25** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Favorable with Amendments {252315/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-14** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-14** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 61 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e9f1ac2b-86b7-48a0-8739-299b10b0ed62`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).