---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business Regulation – Retail Pet Stores"
description: "Business Regulation – Retail Pet Stores"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1662"
citation: "Maryland HB 1662 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business Regulation and Occupations", "Agriculture", "Department of", "Animals", "Animal Shelters", "Citations", "Committees and Commissions", "Exemptions", "Inspections", "Licenses", "Retail Sales", "Revenue and Taxes", "Rules and Regulations", "Time", "Veterinarians"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kramer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-09"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec536561-91fc-4ea5-8f47-ead7e49b1a76"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1662&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "a494d4f11e21bf4cca838c471f25fb74ec9873ac7d1e6bf1916d550f731c8e1e"
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 1662 (2018) — Business Regulation – Retail Pet Stores

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1662f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **123–11** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **129–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kramer — primary (person)
- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
- Aumann — cosponsor (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Barve — cosponsor (person)
- Branch — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Busch — cosponsor (person)
- Carey — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Clippinger — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Frick — cosponsor (person)
- Frush — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Impallaria — cosponsor (person)
- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- Mautz — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-09** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-09** Hearing 3/12 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {213390/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Special Order until next session (Delegate Rey) Adopted
- **2018-03-15** Floor Amendment {973520/1 (Delegate Rey) Rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-16** Third Reading Passed (123-11) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Favorable with Amendments {447276/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (44-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-07** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2018-04-07** Third Reading Passed (129-8) `passage`
- **2018-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 237 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ec536561-91fc-4ea5-8f47-ead7e49b1a76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).