---
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).