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*hb1090*
HOUSE BILL 1090
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By: Delegate Solomon
Introduced and read first time: February 5, 2025
Assigned to: Appropriations
Committee Report: Favorable with amendments
House action: Adopted
Read second time: March 1, 2025
CHAPTER ______
AN ACT concerning 1
Food Supplement Benefits – Students – Eligibility 2
Maryland Higher Education Commission – Maryland College Aid Processing 3
System – Applications 4
FOR the purpose of requiring the Department of Human Services to provide food 5
supplement benefits to certain students enrolled in an institution of higher education 6
in the State who meet certain work study requirements; requiring the Maryland 7
Higher Education Commission to add a certain question to the Maryland College Aid 8
Processing System application; and generally relating to food supplement benefits 9
for students the Maryland College Aid Processing System. 10
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 11
Article – Human Services 12
Section 5–502 13
Annotated Code of Maryland 14
(2019 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 15
BY adding to 16
Article – Human Services 17
Section 5–503.1 18
Annotated Code of Maryland 19
(2019 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 20
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 21
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 22 2 HOUSE BILL 1090
Article – Human Services 1
5–502. 2
Except as provided in [§ 5–503] §§ 5–503 AND 5–503.1 of this subtitle, if any 3
provision of this subtitle conflicts with any federal law, the federal law shall prevail. 4
5–503.1. 5
(A) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROV IDE FOOD SUPPLEMENT BENEFITS TO A 6
STUDENT WHO : 7
(1) IS A RESIDENT OF THE STATE; 8
(2) IS ENROLLED IN AN INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE 9
STATE; 10
(3) IS ELIGIBLE TO PARTI CIPATE IN A STATE– OR FEDERALLY 11
FINANCED WORK STUDY PROGRAM FOR AT LEAST ONE SEMESTER DURING AN 12
ACADEMIC YEAR ; AND 13
(4) PARTICIPATES IN A WO RK STUDY PROGRAM FOR AN AVERAGE O F 14
20 HOURS PER WEEK THROU GHOUT A SEMESTER . 15
(B) A STUDENT ELIGIBLE FOR FOOD SUPPLEMENT BENE FITS UNDER 16
SUBSECTION (A) OF THIS SECTION SHAL L REMAIN ELIGIBLE FO R BENEFITS FOR AN 17
ENTIRE ACADEMIC YEAR REGARDLESS OF THE LE NGTH OF ANY BREAK DU RING THE 18
ACADEMIC YEAR. 19
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That: 20
(a) On or before August 1, 2025, the Maryland Higher Education Commission 21
shall add to the Maryland College Aid Processing System application a question regarding 22
whether, in the previous 6 months, the applicant has missed a meal because of an inability 23
to afford the meal. 24
(b) The Maryland Higher Education Commission may not require a student to 25
answer the question required under subsection (a) of this section in the affirmative in order 26
for the student to be eligible for financial aid. 27
SECTION 3. 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 28
July 1, 2025. 29