Domestic Animals
North Carolina 2025-2026 Session
Amend Dangerous Dog Statutes [SB-385]
Amend Dangerous Dog Statutes
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Gettr North Carolina 2025-2026 Session
Distracted Driving/Children and Animals [HB-394]
Distracted Driving/Children and Animals
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North Carolina 2025-2026 Session
Vet Care for Retired First Responder Dogs [HB-300]
Vet Care for Retired First Responder Dogs
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Real Property - Residential Rental Property - Pet Policy Disclosure (Pet Policy Transparency Act) [HB-1152]
Requiring a certain landlord of residential rental property to provide the property's pet policy on the property's website, in advertisements, in information provided for residential rental search engines, and in applications for a rental unit on the property; and applying the Act to a landlord who owns or operates five or more individual dwelling units in the State.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Real Property - Residential Rental Property - Pet Policy Disclosure (Pet Policy Transparency Act) [SB-896]
Requiring the landlord of a residential rental property to provide the property's pet policy on the property's website, and as part of an application for a rental unit on the property.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Agriculture - Confinement of Egg-Laying Hens in Commercial Egg Production - Prohibitions [SB-806]
Prohibiting a certain farm owner or operator from knowingly confining egg-laying hens in an enclosure that is not a cage-free housing system and does not meet certain space requirements, subject to certain exceptions, on and after January 1, 2030; and prohibiting a business owner or operator or a farm owner or operator from selling shell eggs or egg products without a certain certification of compliance on and after January 1, 2030.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Criminal Law - Human Remains, Pet Remains, and Cemeteries - Prohibitions [HB-1000]
Altering the definition of "permanent cemetery" to include a cemetery owned by a family or religious organization; prohibiting a person from tampering with human remains interred in a cemetery; altering certain penalties relating to prohibitions against removal of human remains from a burial site; prohibiting a person from damaging, desecrating, mutilating, storing, tampering with, trafficking, or transporting human remains; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Criminal Law – Human Remains, Pet Remains, and Cemeteries – Prohibitions [SB-616]
Altering the definition of "permanent cemetery" to include a cemetery owned by a family or religious organization; prohibiting a person from tampering with human remains interred in a cemetery; altering certain penalties relating to prohibitions against removal of human remains from a burial site; prohibiting a person from damaging, desecrating, mutilating, storing, tampering with, trafficking, or transporting human remains; prohibiting a person from removing or attempting to remove pet remains from a cemetery; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Agriculture - Confinement of Egg-Laying Hens in Commercial Egg Production - Prohibitions [HB-834]
Prohibiting a certain farm owner or operator from knowingly confining egg-laying hens in an enclosure that is not a cage-free housing system and does not meet certain space requirements, subject to certain exceptions, on and after January 1, 2030; and prohibiting a business owner or operator or a farm owner or operator from selling shell eggs or egg products without a certain certification of compliance on and after January 1, 2030.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Civil Actions - Tortious Injury to or Death of Pet - Compensatory Damages (Buddy's Law) [SB-581]
Increasing from $10,000 to $25,000 the maximum amount of compensatory damages that may be awarded to an owner of a pet from a person who tortiously causes an injury to or death of the pet while acting individually or through an animal under the person's ownership, direction, or control.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Research Facilities and Testing Facilities That Use Animals - Adoption and Reporting Requirements [SB-537]
Applying certain provisions of law regarding the adoption of dogs and cats used for scientific research purposes to testing facilities; requiring certain research facilities and testing facilities to submit to the Department of Agriculture certain information regarding dogs and cats on or before January 31 each year; and requiring a school or an institution of higher education that uses animals for certain purposes to submit a report on the results of certain inspections to the General Assembly on or before December 31 each year.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Research Facilities and Testing Facilities That Use Animals - Regulation [SB-536]
Establishing requirements for the use and treatment of dogs or cats by a research facility or testing facility; prohibiting a research facility and testing facility from using certain dogs and cats for research or testing purposes and performing devocalization procedures on dogs or cats; prohibiting a research facility and testing facility from using traditional animal test methods under certain circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Research Facilities and Testing Facilities That Use Animals - Licensing and Regulations [SB-535]
Requiring each research facility and testing facility in the State that uses animals in research, education, or testing to be licensed by the Department of Agriculture; applying certain provisions of law regarding the adoption of dogs and cats used for scientific research purposes to testing facilities; establishing a State Inspector of Animal Welfare in the Department to inspect research facilities and testing facilities; requiring a research facility and a testing facility to notify the State Inspector of certain violations; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Higher Education - Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program - Eligibility [HB-643]
Expanding the eligibility for the Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program to include individuals who received a certain degree from an accredited veterinary school and provided veterinary services in the State for not less than 5 years or provided volunteer veterinary services at certain animal shelters for 3 years and to include individuals who provided veterinary technician services for not less than 5 years or provided volunteer veterinary technician services at certain animal shelters over a 3-year period.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Civil Actions - Tortious Injury to or Death of Pet - Compensatory Damages (Buddy's Law) [HB-438]
Increasing from $10,000 to $25,000 the maximum amount of compensatory damages that may be awarded to an owner of a pet from a person who tortiously causes an injury to or death of the pet while acting individually or through an animal under the person's ownership, direction, or control.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Higher Education - Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program - Eligibility [SB-318]
Expanding the eligibility for the Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program to include individuals who received a certain degree from an accredited veterinary school and provided veterinary services in the State for not less than 5 years, or provided volunteer veterinary services at certain animal shelters and to include individuals who provided veterinary technician services for a certain time period or provided volunteer veterinary technician services at certain animal shelters.
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North Carolina 2023-2024 Session
Vet Care for Retired Law Enforcement Dogs [HB-1042]
Vet Care for Retired Law Enforcement Dogs
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North Carolina 2023-2024 Session
Eva's Act [HB-1005]
Eva's Act
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Housing and Community Development - Pets in Housing Developments [HB-1179]
Prohibiting an owner or agent of an owner of a housing development that on or after January 1, 2025, received an allocation of certain tax credits from the Department of Housing and Community Development from imposing certain prohibitions and costs related to a resident's possession of pets; and applying the Act prospectively.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Income Tax - Credit for Spaying and Neutering Dogs and Cats [HB-1107]
Allowing a credit against the State income tax for up to $100 of certain qualified expenses incurred by an individual during the taxable year to spay or neuter a dog or cat owned by the individual.