Resolve, Regarding Tobacco Cessation and Treatment

Sec. 1. Best practice and model treatment programs. Resolved: That the Department of Health and Human Services, through the Partnership for a Tobacco-Free Maine, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Office of MaineCare Services, shall undertake a study of best practice treatment and clinical practice guidelines for tobacco cessation treatment. The study must use the most recent available clinical practice guidelines available from the United States Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service and must include development of a model tobacco cessation treatment program for use in the public sector and private sector. The department shall report back to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services by January 15, 2008. The committee may submit legislation to the Second Regular Session of the 123rd Legislature related to best practice treatment and clinical practice guidelines for tobacco cessation treatment.