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<section article="ghu" article_name="Human Services" number="6-412" title_number="6" title_name="Community Services" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Transitional Services">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Department shall manage the Program.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Each administering agency shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>provide emergency food providers with information about the Program, including Program guidelines and fund availability;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>accept and process requests for funding assistance from emergency food providers; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>allocate funding to emergency food providers based on the procedures approved in the administering agency’s grant application under § 6-413 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>An emergency food provider that receives a Program grant shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>use the grant to purchase food for distribution to needy individuals;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>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;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>distribute information on the State’s earned income tax credit established under § 10-704 of the Tax - General Article; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>submit a report to the Department and the administering agency detailing how the grant was used and how many units of service were provided.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
