Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §7801, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2001, c. 645, §§3 and 4 and corrected by RR 2001, c. 2, Pt. A, §36, is further amended to read:

1. License required. Except as provided in subsection subsections 3 and 6 or section 7805, a person, firm, corporation or association may not operate any of the following without having, subject to this Subtitle and to the rules adopted by the department under this Subtitle, a written license from the department:

A. A residential care facility;

A-1. In accordance with subparagraphs (1) and (2), subsection 6, an assisted housing program either directly or by contract providing to its residents any of the following services: personal care assistance, the administration of medication or nursing services.

(1) An assisted housing program may directly provide to its residents meals, housekeeping and chore assistance, case management and personal care assistance delivered on the site of congregate housing without obtaining a separate license to do so.

(2) An assisted housing program licensee may hold at any one time only one license under this subsection. A qualified assisted housing program may obtain a license for a different category under this subsection, upon application and surrender of the previous license;

B. A drug treatment center;

C. A children's home;

D. A child placing agency;

E. A child care facility licensed under section 8301-A, subsection 2; or

G. An adult day care program.

Sec. 2. 22 MRSA §7801, sub-§6 is enacted to read:

6.__Assisted housing programs.__Licensure for assisted housing programs is subject to subsection 1 and this subsection.