---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Human Services - Federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program - Administration"
description: "Department of Human Services - Federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program - Administration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 445"
citation: "Maryland SB 445 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCray"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff1af0ea-c997-4965-bdce-984708cd9fba"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0445?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "99b22c0f5d35a13516af289207346b462021faa506f6d7372eb58bf61102f4ad"
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 SB 445 (2025) — Department of Human Services - Federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program - Administration

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Department of Human Services - Federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program - Administration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_371_sb0445t.pdf)
2. **First - Department of Human Services - Federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program - Administration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0445f.pdf)
3. **Third - Department of Human Services - Federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program - Administration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0445t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McCray — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 371 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff1af0ea-c997-4965-bdce-984708cd9fba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).