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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="11-1703" title_number="11" title_name="Maryland Higher Education Commission" subtitle_number="17" subtitle_name="Hunger–free Campus Grant Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Commission shall designate as a hunger–free campus any campus of a 4–year institution of higher education or regional higher education center that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Has established a hunger task force that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Meets at least three times per academic year; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Sets at least two goals with action plans;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Has designated a staff member responsible for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Assisting students in enrolling in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Connecting students with available Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program outreach partners that can assist students in enrolling in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Has designated a staff member responsible for informing students participating in federal work–study programs that they are eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Provides options for students to utilize Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits at campus retailers; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Provides students with information on the names and locations of off–campus retailers that accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Participates in an awareness day campaign activity and plans at least one campus awareness event during the National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Provides at least one food pantry on campus, or enables students in need to receive food through a separate, stigma–free arrangement;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Develops and maintains a meal–sharing program that allows students to donate their unused meal plan credits to be distributed to students in need for use in campus dining halls or at an on–campus food pantry, if applicable;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>Conducts a standardized annual student survey on hunger and submits the results to the Commission; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>Submits an annual report detailing its efforts to address student hunger to the Commission.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Commission shall designate as a hunger–free campus any campus of a 2–year institution of higher education that meets all of the requirements for 4–year institutions of higher education or regional higher education centers identified in subsection (a) of this section, with the exception of the requirements in subsection (a)(4) and (7) of this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each 4–year institution of higher education may develop its own procedures for a meal–sharing program.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The 4–year institutions of higher education shall make information about the meal–sharing program publicly available, including:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>How a student may donate unused meal plan credits;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>How a student in need may apply to receive donated meal plan credits; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The methodology that a 4–year institution of higher education uses to ensure that unused donated meal plan credits are used to purchase food to support an on–campus food pantry, if applicable.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
