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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Agriculture - Animal Shelters - Standards of Care and Protocol Implementation and Enforcement"
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description: "Agriculture - Animal Shelters - Standards of Care and Protocol Implementation and Enforcement"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
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legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
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session: "2017"
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identifier: "HB 626"
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citation: "Maryland HB 626 (2017)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Agriculture", "Agriculture", "Department of", "Animals", "Dogs", "Health", "Rules and Regulations", "Veterinarians"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Gilchrist"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 14
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2017-01-30"
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last_action: "2017-05-04"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2827b9b9-b9f7-4418-8e2a-f47d021ee957"
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source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB626&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
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source_hash: "6e18dfa6ca9c1c494750d4d26b7ceb57bfdef97969d88ca93b16fd45b9b84c91"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
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---
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# Maryland HB 626 (2017) — Agriculture - Animal Shelters - Standards of Care and Protocol Implementation and Enforcement
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0626f.pdf)
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## Votes
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- Third Reading — **130–5** (pass) · legislature
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- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- Gilchrist — primary (person)
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- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
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- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
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- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
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- Carr — cosponsor (person)
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- Chang — cosponsor (person)
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- Folden — cosponsor (person)
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- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
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- Frush — cosponsor (person)
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- Healey — cosponsor (person)
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- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
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- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
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- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
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- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
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- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
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- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
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- Lam — cosponsor (person)
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- Long — cosponsor (person)
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- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
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- McComas — cosponsor (person)
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- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
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- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
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- Miele — cosponsor (person)
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- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
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- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
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- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
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- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
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- Rose — cosponsor (person)
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- Saab — cosponsor (person)
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- Vogt — cosponsor (person)
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- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-01-30** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
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- **2017-02-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2017-02-28** Favorable with Amendments {730116/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2017-02-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
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- **2017-03-02** Third Reading Passed (130-5) `passage`
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- **2017-03-03** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
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- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
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- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
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- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
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- **2017-03-31** Returned Passed
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- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 409 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2827b9b9-b9f7-4418-8e2a-f47d021ee957`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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