republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2017/hb-1463.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Veterinary Practitioners - Animal Cruelty and Animal Fighting - Reporting	Veterinary Practitioners - Animal Cruelty and Animal Fighting - Reporting	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2017	HB 1463	Maryland HB 1463 (2017)	bill	Agriculture Abuse Animals Committees and Commissions Liability Rules and Regulations Veterinarians	enacted	Frush	1	14	2	2017-02-10	2017-05-04	openstates	ocd-bill/a5386ab3-00ff-48a7-aa32-27355e700087	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1463&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs	b41491d59a306f87c022eaea74216209d1f623cfa62acb2657be05a379a9e0d5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 1463 (2017) — Veterinary Practitioners - Animal Cruelty and Animal Fighting - Reporting

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 47–0 (pass) · legislature
• Third Reading — 118–15 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Frush — primary (person)
• Angel — cosponsor (person)
• Chang — cosponsor (person)
• Ciliberti — cosponsor (person)
• Healey — cosponsor (person)
• Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
• Malone — cosponsor (person)
• Robinson — cosponsor (person)
• Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
• Saab — cosponsor (person)
• Vogt — cosponsor (person)
• Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-10 First Reading Environment and Transportation referral-committee
• 2017-02-13 Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2017-03-18 Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-18 Favorable with Amendments {760315/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-18 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2017-03-20 Third Reading Passed (118-15) passage
• 2017-03-20 First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2017-03-22 Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2017-04-07 Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-04-10 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-04-10 Second Reading Passed
• 2017-04-10 Third Reading Passed (47-0) passage
• 2017-04-10 Returned Passed
• 2017-05-04 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 417 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a5386ab3-00ff-48a7-aa32-27355e700087. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).