Maryland House Bill 749 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on March 10 2017 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-04-06 - Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Authorizing a court that grants an annulment or a limited or absolute divorce to resolve any dispute between the parties with respect to the ownership of a pet and grant a decree that states what the ownership interest of each party is; authorizing the court to transfer ownership interest in a pet; authorizing the court to award to either party access rights to a pet under specified circumstances; exempting a provision concerning a pet from a 3-year limitation on the duration of a specified provision in a specified order or decree; etc.

Annulment and Divorce - Property Disposition - Pets

Del. Michael Malone [R]	Del. Vanessa Atterbeary [D]	Del. Kathleen Dumais [D]	Del. Susan McComas [R]
Del. David Moon [D]

2017-03-10 - House - House Floor - Third Reading Passed (135-0) (Y: 135 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 4) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-04-06	Senate	Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
2017-03-29	Senate	Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
2017-03-13	Senate	First Reading Judicial Proceedings
2017-03-10	House	Third Reading Passed (135-0)
2017-03-07	House	Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2017-03-07	House	Favorable with Amendments {522610/1 Report Adopted
2017-03-06	House	Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
2017-02-23	House	Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m.
2017-02-02	House	First Reading Judiciary

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB0749?ys=2017rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0749f.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0749t.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/amds/bil_0009/hb0749_52261001.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/fnotes/bil_0009/hb0749.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/votes_comm/hb0749_jud.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/votes_comm/hb0749_jpr.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=flrvotepage&tab=subject3&id=hb0749,h-0401&stab=02&ys=2017RS