republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2023/hb-626.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	Animal Testing and Research - Human-Relevant Research Funding and Animal Testing and Research Contributions	Animal Testing and Research - Human-Relevant Research Funding and Animal Testing and Research Contributions	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2023	HB 626	Maryland HB 626 (2023)	bill		enacted	Allen Bagnall Bridges Charkoudian Cullison Fennell Fraser-Hidalgo Lehman Lopez Love Patterson Qi R. Lewis Reznik Ruth Shetty Solomon Stein	4	15	0	2023-02-03	2023-05-08	openstates	ocd-bill/54b64d80-28c1-4011-89f3-790fa56fe11e	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0626?ys=2023RS&search=True	4007cd67a33075cc25c9f34a8cf31026683f6b5b38bba84e981b40795430a4e7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 626 (2023) — Animal Testing and Research - Human-Relevant Research Funding and Animal Testing and Research Contributions

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Animal Testing and Research - Human-Relevant Research Funding and Animal Testing and Research Contributions (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled - Animal Testing and Research - Human-Relevant Research Funding and Animal Testing and Research Contributions (committee substitute) — source
3. First - Animal Testing and Research - Human-Relevant Research Funding and Animal Testing and Research Licensure (committee substitute) — source
4. Third - Animal Testing and Research - Human-Relevant Research Funding and Animal Testing and Research Contributions (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Allen — primary (person)
• Bagnall — primary (person)
• Bridges — primary (person)
• Charkoudian — primary (person)
• Cullison — primary (person)
• Fennell — primary (person)
• Fraser-Hidalgo — primary (person)
• Lehman — primary (person)
• Lopez — primary (person)
• Love — primary (person)
• Patterson — primary (person)
• Qi — primary (person)
• R. Lewis — primary (person)
• Reznik — primary (person)
• Ruth — primary (person)
• Shetty — primary (person)
• Solomon — primary (person)
• Stein — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-03 First Reading Health and Government Operations and Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2023-02-13 Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations)
• 2023-03-16 Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-16 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-16 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2023-03-18 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2023-03-20 Referred Finance referral-committee
• 2023-04-03 Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-03 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-03 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2023-04-04 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2023-04-07 House Concurs Senate Amendments
• 2023-04-07 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2023-04-07 Passed Enrolled
• 2023-05-08 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 447 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/54b64d80-28c1-4011-89f3-790fa56fe11e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).