---
type: "Bill"
title: "Barbers - Criminal Penalties for Violations of Barbering Law - Repeal"
description: "Barbers - Criminal Penalties for Violations of Barbering Law - Repeal"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1261"
citation: "Maryland HB 1261 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business Regulation and Occupations", "Barbers", "Cosmetologists", "Fines", "Licenses", "Penalties and Sentences"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wilkins"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d7da002-3255-40d8-af80-8ac63d128242"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1261&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "a316d992cea2c850b0ea45a54de4130b8e1a191a981622f4a7359109198096fe"
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 1261 (2017) — Barbers - Criminal Penalties for Violations of Barbering Law - Repeal

## 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/hb1261f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **141–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Wilkins — primary (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Frick — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-10** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-14** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-16** Third Reading Passed (141-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-17** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 198 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7d7da002-3255-40d8-af80-8ac63d128242`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).