Maryland House Bill 876 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on February 13 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-04 - Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m.
Pending: House Environment and Transportation Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requiring an animal shelter to develop and adhere to a specified written veterinary care protocol; stating specified requirements for the written veterinary protocol; requiring an animal shelter to meet specified veterinary care requirements; requiring an animal shelter to maintain specified holding periods; stating specified criteria for an animal shelter to seize, impound, or otherwise take custody of a specified cat; requiring an animal shelter to take specified steps to determine the identity of an animal in its custody; etc.

Agriculture - Animal Shelters - Uniform Standards of Operation and Care (Animal Shelter Standards Act of 2015)

Del. Christian Miele [R]	Sen. Shelly Hettleman [D]	Del. Eric Bromwell [D]	Del. Susan Aumann [R]
Del. Andrew Cassilly [R]	Del. John Cluster [R]	Del. Terri Hill [D]	Del. Marc Korman [D]
Del. Brooke Lierman [D]	Del. Susan McComas [R]	Del. Ric Metzgar [R]	Del. Joseline Pena-Melnyk [D]
Sen. Chris West [R]	Sen. Karen Lewis Young [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-04	House	Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m.
2015-02-13	House	First Reading Environment and Transportation

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB0876?ys=2015rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2015RS/bills/hb/hb0876f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2015RS/fnotes/bil_0006/hb0876.pdf