Sponsored by Sen. Clarence Lam, D-Howard and Baltimore counties, Senate bill 752 would allow elderly, disabled and homeless people to use their Electronic Benefits Transfer cards to purchase food at participating restaurants, Lam said.
Arizona and some counties in California have restaurant meals programs and there are pilot programs in Rhode Island and Florida, according to the United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service.
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F Annapolis.
Nothing like letting the "Homeless" aka welfare queens in to destroy your restaurant ?.
And illegals aliens. Some how democrats never mention that in public statements. Also gang members and their families. If homeless get welfare why do we have soup kitchens?
Those Democrats from Howard, Baltimore, PG, Montgomery Counties and Baltimore City are ruining our state. We need to go to an electoral college of change the number of Reps per county.
If this passes, make sure to post the list of "participating restaurants". I'll be sure to never eat at those locations again!
It'll be interesting to see which restaurants accept the cards.
They're also thinking about how to enable card holders to use them online for grocery purchases, along with creating a cellphone app to carry out all purchases instead of the actual physical card.
(Nah, I just made all that up. Right?)
They should be given food packages each week to carry them over, not buy surf and turf that working people don’t buy because they have rent and other bills. I worked in a grocery store for years, and they never bought cheap cuts of meats, but all prime. When did those who do not work deserve more than we who do and pay for their free stuff? Since when should those who get hand out live better than the working class! There are working families who don’t eat out because it is too expensive!
The minute a restaurant says they accept the cards is the minute I will never go there again and I will tell 20 of my friends to do the same.
Dangerous socialism needs to be killed ASAP
I suspect Unions again, how bout it SJB
And it will destroy any restaurant that accepts it. Just what people need, a bunch of thugs and 400 pound loud, foul mouth low life's while they are trying to enjoy a meal. Want my business? Do not accept those snap or any kind of welfare assistance.
For all you holier than thou people that want to tell someone how to spend their food budget, how about someone telling you how to spend yours? Once those recipients spend their allotment, it's gone, whether it was on one meal for the family at a steak house, or dozens of meals at McDonald's, or groceries from a grocery store. They don't get a bigger allotment, if they blow it all at restaurants. You people complaining about this should be ashamed of yourselves, putting down low income people with your comments. Telling someone how, where, and on what, to spend their food budget is tantamount to oppression for being poor. Have a little respect for humanity, for Christ's sake!
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