# Human Services (GHU)

## Title 6. Community Services

### Subtitle 4. Transitional Services

#### Section 6-412

(a) The Department shall manage the Program.

(b) Each administering agency shall:

  (1) provide emergency food providers with information about the Program, including Program guidelines and fund availability;

  (2) accept and process requests for funding assistance from emergency food providers; and

  (3) allocate funding to emergency food providers based on the procedures approved in the administering agency's grant application under Sec. 6-413 of this subtitle.

(c) An emergency food provider that receives a Program grant shall:

  (1) use the grant to purchase food for distribution to needy individuals;

  (2) as a condition of distributing food, provide to needy individuals information, developed in collaboration with the Department, that encourages self-sufficiency consistent with the goals of the Family Investment Program established under Title 5, Subtitle 3 of this article;

  (3) distribute information on the State's earned income tax credit established under Sec. 10-704 of the Tax - General Article; and

  (4) submit a report to the Department and the administering agency detailing how the grant was used and how many units of service were provided.

---

Md. Code Ann., Hum. Servs. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)