---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Law – Sexual Contact With an Animal – Aggravated Cruelty to Animals"
description: "Criminal Law – Sexual Contact With an Animal – Aggravated Cruelty to Animals"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 641"
citation: "Maryland HB 641 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Public Safety", "Abuse", "Animals", "Crimes and Punishments", "Sexual Offenses", "Violence"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Atterbeary"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-06"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/08613b21-df80-46a5-a613-81fad6580c73"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB641&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "686b20640a6fc688d53496bc27eb169415881fa71f182f0891684612413c6562"
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 641 (2019) — Criminal Law – Sexual Contact With an Animal – Aggravated Cruelty to Animals

## 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/hb0641f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Atterbeary — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
- Arikan — cosponsor (person)
- Barve — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Cardin — cosponsor (person)
- D.E. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
- Grammer — cosponsor (person)
- Hartman — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Love — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Otto — cosponsor (person)
- Parrott — cosponsor (person)
- Qi — cosponsor (person)
- Shetty — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- Sydnor — cosponsor (person)
- W. Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-06** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {112212/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-18** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Favorable with Amendments {888773/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (43-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-04** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-04** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 72 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/08613b21-df80-46a5-a613-81fad6580c73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).