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Bill Civil Actions - Tortious Injury to or Death of Pet - Compensatory Damages (Buddy's Law) Civil Actions - Tortious Injury to or Death of Pet - Compensatory Damages (Buddy's Law) us/states/md Maryland General Assembly 2025 SB 581 Maryland SB 581 (2025)
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Maryland SB 581 (2025) — Civil Actions - Tortious Injury to or Death of Pet - Compensatory Damages (Buddy's Law)

Version chain

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

  1. Chapter - Civil Actions - Tortious Injury to or Death of Pet - Compensatory Damages (Buddy's Law) (committee substitute) — source
  2. First - Civil Actions - Tortious Injury to or Death of Pet - Compensatory Damages (committee substitute) — source
  3. Third - Civil Actions - Tortious Injury to or Death of Pet - Compensatory Damages (Buddy's Law) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • On Third Reading — 1381 (pass) · lower
  • On Third Reading — 470 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Henson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-27 First Reading Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
  • 2025-01-30 Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
  • 2025-03-10 Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-03-11 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-03-11 Floor Amendment {
  • 2025-03-11 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
  • 2025-03-12 Third Reading Passed passage
  • 2025-03-13 Referred Judiciary referral-committee
  • 2025-04-01 Favorable Report by Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-04-02 Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-04-02 Third Reading Passed passage
  • 2025-04-03 Returned Passed
  • 2025-04-22 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 100 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/95cbd292-487c-48ea-afdb-c732fda900e4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).