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SENATE BILL 629
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By: Senator Gile
Introduced and read first time: January 26, 2024
Assigned to: Education, Energy, and the Environment
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning 1
State Board of Cosmetologists – Membership – Alteration 2
FOR the purpose of altering the membership of the State Board of Cosmetologists; and 3
generally relating to the State Board of Cosmetologists. 4
BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments, 5
Article – Business Occupations and Professions 6
Section 5–201 7
Annotated Code of Maryland 8
(2018 Replacement Volume and 2023 Supplement) 9
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 10
Article – Business Occupations and Professions 11
Section 5–202(a), (c), and (d) 12
Annotated Code of Maryland 13
(2018 Replacement Volume and 2023 Supplement) 14
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 15
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 16
Article – Business Occupations and Professions 17
5–201. 18
There is a State Board of Cosmetologists in the Department. 19
5–202. 20
(a) (1) The Board consists of seven members. 21
(2) Of the seven members of the Board: 22 2 SENATE BILL 629
(i) four shall be licensed cosmetologists; 1
(ii) ONE SHALL BE A LICEN SED ESTHETICIAN ; 2
(III) one shall be affiliated with a private cosmetology school as an 3
educator or owner; and 4
[(iii)] (IV) [two] ONE shall be A consumer [members] MEMBER. 5
(3) The Governor shall appoint the members with the ad vice of the 6
Secretary. 7
(c) [Each] THE consumer member of the Board: 8
(1) shall be a member of the general public; 9
(2) may not be a licensee or otherwise be subject to regulation by the Board; 10
(3) may not be required to meet the qualifications for the professional 11
members of the Board; and 12
(4) may not, within 1 year before appointment, have had a financial 13
interest in or have received compensation from a person regulated by the Board. 14
(d) While a member of the Board, [a] THE consumer member may not: 15
(1) have a financial interest in or receive compensation from a person 16
regulated by the Board; or 17
(2) grade any examination given by or for the Board. 18
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 19
October 1, 2024. 20