---
type: "Bill"
title: "Human Relations - Housing Discrimination - Service Dogs"
description: "Human Relations - Housing Discrimination - Service Dogs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 608"
citation: "Maryland HB 608 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Johnson", "Addison", "Allen", "Arentz", "Attar", "Baker", "Barve", "Boafo", "Boyce", "Buckel", "Chang", "Charkoudian", "Crosby", "Cullison", "D. Jones", "Ebersole", "Feldmark", "Foley", "Forbes", "Fraser-Hidalgo", "Grossman", "Guyton", "J. Long", "Jacobs", "Kaufman", "Kelly", "Kerr", "Lehman", "Love", "McCaskill", "Miller", "Mireku-North", "Moon", "Nawrocki", "Otto", "R. Lewis", "Rogers", "Ruth", "Shetty", "Simmons", "Stewart", "T. Morgan", "Taveras", "Terrasa", "Tomlinson", "Valderrama", "Vogel", "Watson", "Wivell", "Ziegler"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-03"
last_action: "2023-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/081afc38-1246-4219-ac05-e888c4e30f34"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0608?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "02bb8039861af61e8baac413fe5ade02604e99805ab9d7ff89e4b33e51ecb6ef"
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 608 (2023) — Human Relations - Housing Discrimination - Service Dogs

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Human Relations - Housing Discrimination - Service Dogs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_211_hb0608t.pdf)
2. **First - Human Relations - Housing Discrimination - Service Dogs and Guide Dogs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0608f.pdf)
3. **Third - Human Relations - Housing Discrimination - Service Dogs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0608t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- A. Johnson — primary (person)
- Addison — primary (person)
- Allen — primary (person)
- Arentz — primary (person)
- Attar — primary (person)
- Baker — primary (person)
- Barve — primary (person)
- Boafo — primary (person)
- Boyce — primary (person)
- Buckel — primary (person)
- Chang — primary (person)
- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Crosby — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Ebersole — primary (person)
- Feldmark — primary (person)
- Foley — primary (person)
- Forbes — primary (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — primary (person)
- Grossman — primary (person)
- Guyton — primary (person)
- J. Long — primary (person)
- Jacobs — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Kelly — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Love — primary (person)
- McCaskill — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Mireku-North — primary (person)
- Moon — primary (person)
- Nawrocki — primary (person)
- Otto — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Simmons — primary (person)
- Stewart — primary (person)
- T. Morgan — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- Tomlinson — primary (person)
- Valderrama — primary (person)
- Vogel — primary (person)
- Watson — primary (person)
- Wivell — primary (person)
- Ziegler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-03** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-06** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-31** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-31** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-31** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-03** Referred Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-05** Rereferred to Judicial Proceedings
- **2023-04-07** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2023-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2023-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 211 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/081afc38-1246-4219-ac05-e888c4e30f34`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).