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Committee hears plan to improve SNAP access for Maryland college students, adds MCAPS self‑identification question
Summary
Sponsor and agency negotiators said many of the bill's substantive SNAP eligibility changes will instead be implemented through Maryland Department of Human Services guidance; the remaining statutory change would add an optional food-insecurity question to the MCAPS financial-aid application to flag students for outreach and campus resources.
Delegate Jared Solomon told the Appropriations Committee he and agency partners had negotiated changes to House Bill 1090 so most administrative SNAP student eligibility changes would be implemented through Department of Human Services guidance rather than statute, leaving one low-cost statutory addition: an optional food-insecurity question on the MCAPS financial-aid application.
"We've made a lot of changes that completely nullify the fiscal note,"…
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