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PUBLIC LAWS OF MAINE
First Regular Session of the 121st

CHAPTER 428
H.P. 1100 - L.D. 1507

An Act To Clarify and Update the Laws and Rules Related to Health Care

     Emergency preamble. Whereas, Acts of the Legislature do not become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and

     Whereas, rules governing the Community Health Access Program have been drafted and are under review by the Department of Human Services; and

     Whereas, current law designates those rules as major substantive rules and subject to legislative review before final approval; and

     Whereas, the rules will not be provisionally adopted before adjournment of the Legislature; and

     Whereas, this Act designates the rules as routine technical rules to allow the Community Health Access Program to become operational before the Legislature reconvenes next January; and

     Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and require the following legislation as immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

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