---
type: "Bill"
title: "Anne Arundel County and Harford County - Court Dog and Child Witness Pilot Program - Extension"
description: "Anne Arundel County and Harford County - Court Dog and Child Witness Pilot Program - Extension"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 124"
citation: "Maryland SB 124 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts and Court Personnel - Local", "Administrative Office of the Courts", "Anne Arundel County", "Circuit Courts", "Dogs", "Harford County", "Minors", "Names", "Reports", "Sunset", "Witnesses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Simonaire"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-18"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3d3e2e3-4274-4e09-a900-f05f872d3269"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB124&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "acc6f5751848810ad61b2edb1aa83dfb7a9a02a2c841f1e155709a125b0b4d5b"
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 SB 124 (2019) — Anne Arundel County and Harford County - Court Dog and Child Witness Pilot Program - Extension

## 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/sb/sb0124f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Simonaire — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-18** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-18** Hearing 1/30 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-04** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-02-07** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-08** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-18** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-05** Third Reading Passed (132-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 466 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c3d3e2e3-4274-4e09-a900-f05f872d3269`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).