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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Food Supplement Program - Restaurant Meals Program"
+description: "Food Supplement Program - Restaurant Meals Program"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 838"
+citation: "Maryland HB 838 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Social Services - Generally", "Elderly", "Disabled", "Disabilities", "Elderly Persons", "Food Stamps", "Human Services", "Department of", "Minors", "Reports", "Restaurants", "Rules and Regulations", "Social Services", "Sunset"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Valentino-Smith"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-08"
+last_action: "2019-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d508d03-03e5-4929-a196-3c514693c286"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB838&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "79c4d05afdf7a6b35465dbd373946d4b1fd55aba57923d228e89c1d642d2b991"
+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 838 (2019) — Food Supplement Program - Restaurant Meals Program
+
+## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0838f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **99–37** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Valentino-Smith — primary (person)
+- Acevero — cosponsor (person)
+- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
+- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
+- P. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Solomon — cosponsor (person)
+- Terrasa — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-08** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-11** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-05** Favorable with Amendments {604461/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-07** Special Order until 03/08 (Delegate Kipke) Adopted
+- **2019-03-08** Third Reading Passed (99-37) `passage`
+- **2019-03-11** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 475 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7d508d03-03e5-4929-a196-3c514693c286`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+