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type: "Bill"
title: "Health - Maryland Children's Service Animal Program - Establishment"
description: "Health - Maryland Children's Service Animal Program - Establishment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 455"
citation: "Maryland SB 455 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Augustine", "Feldman", "Guzzone", "Pinsky", "Rosapepe", "Simonaire"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-27"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f974e6f-dbc7-49f7-9470-275c442cee7f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0455?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "94cd7b40ae536909c9652683f65972cd6f59425bf89b15de2f32ed0db525f871"
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 SB 455 (2020) — Health - Maryland Children's Service Animal Program - Establishment
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Health - Maryland Children's Service Animal Program - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_248_sb0455t.pdf)
2. **First - Health - Maryland Children's Service Animal Program - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0455f.pdf)
3. **Third - Health - Maryland Children's Service Animal Program - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0455t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **470** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **1320** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Augustine — primary (person)
- Feldman — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Pinsky — primary (person)
- Rosapepe — primary (person)
- Simonaire — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-27** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-04** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-02-21** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-21** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-02-25** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-02-26** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-14** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-14** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 248 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4f974e6f-dbc7-49f7-9470-275c442cee7f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).