republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/153/hjr-2.md

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Bill	DIRECTING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES TO EXPLORE PARTICIPATING IN THE FEDERAL RESTAURANT MEALS PROGRAM.	This House Joint Resolution directs the Department of Health and Social Services (“DHSS”) to explore participating in the federal Restaurant Meals Program (RMP). The RMP is an option that states may incorporate into their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to ensure that SNAP recipients who are senior citizens, disabled, or unhoused, or other eligible family members of those participants, may use their SNAP benefits to buy hot foods or hot prepared meals. These populations may otherwise experience barriers that prevent them having the opportunity to access a nutritious and sustaining meal.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	153	HJR 2	Delaware HJR 2 (153)	joint resolution		enacted	Bryan Townsend Bryant L. Richardson Claire Snyder-Hall Cyndie Romer DeShanna U Neal Eric Morrison Josue O Ortega Kerri Evelyn Harris Melanie Ross Levin Ray Seigfried Russell Huxtable Sarah McBride Spiros Mantzavinos Trey Paradee	1	9	2	2025-03-06	2025-08-25	openstates	ocd-bill/23fec2db-27bc-477e-96c6-829fbf0700d9	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141872	b6e0bba56e8db2c2c678cf6d8c0f917e5eadb8803372d8c0107f46dc04fcda50	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HJR 2 (153) — DIRECTING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES TO EXPLORE PARTICIPATING IN THE FEDERAL RESTAURANT MEALS PROGRAM.

This House Joint Resolution directs the Department of Health and Social Services (“DHSS”) to explore participating in the federal Restaurant Meals Program (RMP). The RMP is an option that states may incorporate into their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to ensure that SNAP recipients who are senior citizens, disabled, or unhoused, or other eligible family members of those participants, may use their SNAP benefits to buy hot foods or hot prepared meals. These populations may otherwise experience barriers that prevent them having the opportunity to access a nutritious and sustaining meal.

Version chain

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

1. HA 1 to HJR 2 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 37–0 (pass) · lower
• SM — 21–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
• Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
• Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
• DeShanna U Neal — primary (person)
• Eric Morrison — primary (person)
• Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
• Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
• Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
• Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
• Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
• Sarah McBride — primary (person)
• Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
• Trey Paradee — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-06 Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-04-15 Amendment HA 1 to HJR 2 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-16 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 9 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-17 Amendment HA 1 to HJR 2 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2025-04-17 Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT passage
• 2025-04-17 Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-06-18 Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2025-06-30 Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES passage
• 2025-08-25 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/23fec2db-27bc-477e-96c6-829fbf0700d9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).