---
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: "SB 152"
citation: "Maryland SB 152 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes", "Criminal Law - Procedure", "Abuse", "Animals", "Bonds", "Crimes and Punishments", "District Courts", "Fees", "Fines", "Forfeiture", "Hearings", "Notices", "Petitions", "Search and Seizure"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ready"]
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/83814550-cd8e-44ab-953e-33b63e0efff1"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB152&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "46ea3943e793e92b2dc5ee939ef3a029d8ac99cbecb8fae939c8601a1a570318"
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 152 (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/sb/sb0152f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ready — primary (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Elfreth — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Hearing 1/31 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-12** Favorable with Amendments {538973/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-02-14** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-15** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-29** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 62 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/83814550-cd8e-44ab-953e-33b63e0efff1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).