---
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: "HB 538"
citation: "Maryland HB 538 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Forbes", "Harris", "Hinebaugh", "J. Lewis", "Kaufman", "Lehman", "Pena-Melnyk", "Shetty", "Solomon", "Spiegel", "Stonko", "Wells"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c43dc03e-d399-4092-9f7f-690d5e9d0820"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0538?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "038468d01ad5148a95c9ba117493b3ee57ecbaebbc2e11021aec64556a07b0c7"
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 538 (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_370_hb0538t.pdf)
2. **First - Department of Human Services - Federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program - Administration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0538f.pdf)
3. **Third - Department of Human Services - Federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program - Administration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0538t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Forbes — primary (person)
- Harris — primary (person)
- Hinebaugh — primary (person)
- J. Lewis — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Solomon — primary (person)
- Spiegel — primary (person)
- Stonko — primary (person)
- Wells — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-24** Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-10** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-14** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 370 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c43dc03e-d399-4092-9f7f-690d5e9d0820`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).