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Bill	Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program Fund - Alteration of Program	Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program Fund - Alteration of Program	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2018	SB 53	Maryland SB 53 (2018)	bill	State Government - Agencies Offices and Officials Social Services - Generally Animals Disclosure Dogs Mental and Behavioral Health Revenue and Taxes Veterans Affairs Department of Veterans	enacted	Simonaire	1	15	2	2017-11-14	2018-04-24	openstates	ocd-bill/602e23bc-7272-44a2-97f9-e8b064605950	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB53&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs	1b52c3a68d0504870147a2333bdc51a5b66d59ad62a0e55f0bc3e7362f5f245e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 53 (2018) — Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program Fund - Alteration of Program

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 46–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 137–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Simonaire — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-11-14 Pre-filed introduction
• 2018-01-10 First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2018-01-03 Hearing 1/11 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-01-12 Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-01-12 Favorable with Amendments {904539/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-01-12 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2018-01-16 Third Reading Passed (46-0) passage
• 2018-01-18 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2018-03-07 Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-03-26 Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-27 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-27 Second Reading Passed
• 2018-03-28 Third Reading Passed (137-0) passage
• 2018-04-09 Returned Passed
• 2018-04-24 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 152 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/602e23bc-7272-44a2-97f9-e8b064605950. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).