republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2025/hb-513.md

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Bill	Crimes Relating to Animals - Restrictions on Keeping Roosters	Crimes Relating to Animals - Restrictions on Keeping Roosters	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2025	HB 513	Maryland HB 513 (2025)	bill		enacted	Allen Bagnall Behler Ebersole Embry Fair Foley Guyton J. Long Lehman Nawrocki Patterson R. Lewis Ruth Stein Terrasa Ziegler	3	12	1	2025-01-22	2025-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/2f42c10c-dcc0-4d4d-82b9-3427142b2080	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0513?ys=2025RS&search=True	2d37f22f9105be2c17824d3846efa46d6a4612b24e4dd624315ba0e7899bb437	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 513 (2025) — Crimes Relating to Animals - Restrictions on Keeping Roosters

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Crimes Relating to Animals - Restrictions on Keeping Roosters (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Agriculture - Roosters - Restrictions (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Crimes Relating to Animals - Restrictions on Keeping Roosters (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 134–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Allen — primary (person)
• Bagnall — primary (person)
• Behler — primary (person)
• Ebersole — primary (person)
• Embry — primary (person)
• Fair — primary (person)
• Foley — primary (person)
• Guyton — primary (person)
• J. Long — primary (person)
• Lehman — primary (person)
• Nawrocki — primary (person)
• Patterson — primary (person)
• R. Lewis — primary (person)
• Ruth — primary (person)
• Stein — primary (person)
• Terrasa — primary (person)
• Ziegler — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-22 First Reading Environment and Transportation referral-committee
• 2025-01-27 Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2025-03-10 Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-11 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-11 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2025-03-12 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-03-12 Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment referral-committee
• 2025-03-31 Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-02 Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-03 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-04-04 Returned Passed
• 2025-04-22 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 185 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2f42c10c-dcc0-4d4d-82b9-3427142b2080. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).