---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcoholic Beverages - Liquor and Wine"
description: "Alcoholic Beverages - Liquor and Wine"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 252"
citation: "Maryland HB 252 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverages - Statewide Bills", "Alcoholic Beverages - Local Bills", "Alcoholic Beverages", "Alcoholic Beverages Licenses", "Jurisdiction", "Weights and Measures"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barkley"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d7d5be1-5df1-4d7e-8f06-eba559759fe3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB252&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "0ec573a91de1954090e91c674c56dba7ec4f19c83c4dfc186f46d22311972741"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
---

# Maryland HB 252 (2017) — Alcoholic Beverages - Liquor and Wine

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0252f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **138–1** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Barkley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-23** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-06** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-09** Third Reading Passed (138-1) `passage`
- **2017-03-10** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-13** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 315 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0d7d5be1-5df1-4d7e-8f06-eba559759fe3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).