republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2017/sb-143.md

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Bill	Injury to or Death of Pet - Damages	Injury to or Death of Pet - Damages	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2017	SB 143	Maryland SB 143 (2017)	bill	Civil Actions and Procedures Animals Damages Death	enacted	Zirkin	1	17	3	2017-01-16	2017-05-04	openstates	ocd-bill/6433ce92-b415-448c-a274-70e99b2be653	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB143&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs	72a112a7b65e3927c0ba9b195636e8cca628d480909cafd99f1170e8c1351ca6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 143 (2017) — Injury to or Death of Pet - Damages

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 — 39–7 (pass) · legislature
• Third Reading — 44–0 (pass) · legislature
• Third Reading — 136–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Zirkin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-16 First Reading Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
• 2017-01-17 Hearing 1/26 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2017-02-06 Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-02-08 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-02-08 Second Reading Passed
• 2017-02-13 Third Reading Passed (39-7) passage
• 2017-02-14 First Reading Judiciary referral-committee
• 2017-03-15 Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2017-03-31 Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-31 Favorable with Amendments {432911/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-31 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2017-04-04 Special Order until next session (Delegate Dumais) Adopted
• 2017-04-07 Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-0) passage
• 2017-04-10 Senate Concur - House Amendments
• 2017-04-10 Third Reading Passed (44-0) passage
• 2017-04-10 Passed Enrolled
• 2017-05-04 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 413 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6433ce92-b415-448c-a274-70e99b2be653. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).