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type: "Bill"
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title: "DIRECTING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES TO EXPLORE PARTICIPATING IN THE FEDERAL RESTAURANT MEALS PROGRAM."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
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legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
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session: "153"
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identifier: "HJR 2"
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citation: "Delaware HJR 2 (153)"
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classification: ["joint resolution"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["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"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 9
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-03-06"
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last_action: "2025-08-25"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23fec2db-27bc-477e-96c6-829fbf0700d9"
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source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141872"
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source_hash: "b6e0bba56e8db2c2c678cf6d8c0f917e5eadb8803372d8c0107f46dc04fcda50"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
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---
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# Delaware HJR 2 (153) — DIRECTING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES TO EXPLORE PARTICIPATING IN THE FEDERAL RESTAURANT MEALS PROGRAM.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HA 1 to HJR 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=142118&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
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## Votes
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- SM — **37–0** (pass) · lower
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- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
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- Bryant L. Richardson — primary (person)
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- Claire Snyder-Hall — primary (person)
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- Cyndie Romer — primary (person)
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- DeShanna U Neal — primary (person)
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- Eric Morrison — primary (person)
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- Josue O Ortega — primary (person)
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- Kerri Evelyn Harris — primary (person)
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- Melanie Ross Levin — primary (person)
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- Ray Seigfried — primary (person)
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- Russell Huxtable — primary (person)
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- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
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- Spiros Mantzavinos — primary (person)
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- Trey Paradee — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-03-06** Introduced and Assigned to Health & Human Development Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-15** Amendment HA 1 to HJR 2 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
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- **2025-04-16** Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 9 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-17** Amendment HA 1 to HJR 2 - Passed In House by Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2025-04-17** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 ABSENT `passage`
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- **2025-04-17** Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2025-06-30** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
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- **2025-08-25** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23fec2db-27bc-477e-96c6-829fbf0700d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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