An Act To Improve the Compliance and Accountability of the Child Development Services System
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §7209, sub-§1, ¶E, as enacted by PL 2005, c. 662, Pt. A, §30, is amended to read:
E. The department, in consultation with regional sites, shall develop an action plan with timelines to achieve compliance with federal or state law. The department may assume temporary responsibilities responsibility for operations at a regional site that fails to meet compliance requirements. The department shall report at least quarterly to the state interagency coordinating council described in 20 United States Code, Section 1441, to the state advisory panel described in 34 Code of Federal Regulations, Sections 300.167 to 300.169 and to other advisory bodies that may be appropriate about individual regional sites that are under an action plan and about individual regional sites for whose operations the department has taken temporary responsibility. These reports must describe any progress or slippage by individual regional sites in meeting compliance requirements. For an individual regional site under an action plan, the reports must describe how long the department expects the regional site to remain under an action plan. For an individual regional site for whose operation the department has taken temporary responsibility, the reports must describe when the department expects to return responsibility to the regional site.
Effective June 30, 2008