---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wildlife - Traveling Animal Acts - Prohibition"
description: "Wildlife - Traveling Animal Acts - Prohibition"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 379"
citation: "Maryland HB 379 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen", "Feldmark", "Foley", "Guyton", "Kaufman", "Lehman", "Love", "Palakovich Carr", "R. Lewis", "Ruth", "Solomon", "Stein", "Stewart", "Terrasa", "Ziegler"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-17"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96265051-37bc-43e7-9d16-f044d6ae36a4"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0379?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "dec9063d634a5470b15889d2c504032b65882480d9adbe21bd114174a231dc79"
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 379 (2024) — Wildlife - Traveling Animal Acts - Prohibition

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Wildlife - Traveling Animal Acts - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_597_hb0379e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Wildlife - Traveling Animal Acts - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0379e.pdf)
3. **First - Wildlife - Traveling Animal Acts - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0379f.pdf)
4. **Third - Wildlife - Traveling Animal Acts - Prohibition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0379t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **102–28** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **37–7** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **105–34** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- Feldmark — primary (person)
- Foley — primary (person)
- Guyton — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Love — primary (person)
- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- Solomon — primary (person)
- Stein — primary (person)
- Stewart — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- Ziegler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-17** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-18** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-14** Hearing canceled
- **2024-02-14** Hearing 2/14 at 1:15 p.m.
- **2024-02-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-02-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-06** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2024-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-06** Passed Enrolled
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 597 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96265051-37bc-43e7-9d16-f044d6ae36a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).