republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2025/hb-538.md

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Bill	Department of Human Services - Federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program - Administration	Department of Human Services - Federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program - Administration	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2025	HB 538	Maryland HB 538 (2025)	bill		enacted	Forbes Harris Hinebaugh J. Lewis Kaufman Lehman Pena-Melnyk Shetty Solomon Spiegel Stonko Wells	3	11	1	2025-01-22	2025-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/c43dc03e-d399-4092-9f7f-690d5e9d0820	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0538?ys=2025RS&search=True	038468d01ad5148a95c9ba117493b3ee57ecbaebbc2e11021aec64556a07b0c7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. First - Department of Human Services - Federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program - Administration (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Department of Human Services - Federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program - Administration (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/c43dc03e-d399-4092-9f7f-690d5e9d0820. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).