---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Law - Animal Abuse or Neglect - Penalties"
description: "Criminal Law - Animal Abuse or Neglect - Penalties"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 80"
citation: "Maryland SB 80 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kramer", "Smith"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-10-25"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c3106d0-d340-4695-b71b-b5b5affd99c2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0080?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "b698d536f176631fba1dccabaf70c27c99b45533d3a059c1f6cc265c8ab82fd9"
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 80 (2025) — Criminal Law - Animal Abuse or Neglect - Penalties

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Criminal Law - Animal Abuse or Neglect - Penalties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_183_sb0080t.pdf)
2. **First - Criminal Law - Animal Abuse or Neglect - Penalties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0080f.pdf)
3. **Third - Criminal Law - Animal Abuse or Neglect - Penalties** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0080t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **139–1** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **41–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kramer — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-25** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-09** Hearing 1/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-26** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-26** Hearing 3/26 at 3:15 p.m.
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 183 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c3106d0-d340-4695-b71b-b5b5affd99c2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).