PUBLIC LAWS
First Regular Session of the 122nd

PART VV

     Sec. VV-1. 36 MRSA §2551, sub-§1-A is enacted to read:

     1-A. Community support services. "Community support services" means rehabilitative services provided to adults at least 18 years of age or to emancipated children that are provided in the context of a supportive relationship pursuant to an individual support plan that promotes a person's recovery and integration of the person into the community and that sustain the person in that person's current living situation or another living situation of that person's choice. "Community support services" include only those services provided by a designated community support services provider licensed by and operating under a contract with the Department of Health and Human Services for such services, whether the provider is reimbursed through participation in the MaineCare program or with state grant funds.

     Sec. VV-2. 36 MRSA §2552, sub-§1, ¶¶F and G, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 673, Pt. V, §25 and affected by §29, are amended to read:

F. The installation, maintenance or repair of telecommunications equipment; and
G. Private nonmedical institution services.; and

     Sec. VV-3. 36 MRSA §2552, sub-§1, ¶H is enacted to read:

H. Community support services.

     Sec. VV-4. 36 MRSA §2559, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 673, Pt. V, §25 and affected by §29, is amended to read:

§2559. Application of revenues

     Revenues derived by the tax imposed by this chapter must be credited to a General Fund suspense account. On or before the last day of each month, the State Controller shall transfer a percentage of the revenues received by the State Tax Assessor during the preceding month pursuant to the tax imposed by section 2552, subsection 1, paragraphs A to F to the Local Government Fund as provided by Title 30-A, section 5681, subsection 5. The balance remaining in the General Fund suspense account must be transferred to service provider tax General Fund revenue. On or before the 15th day of each month, the State Controller shall transfer all revenues received by the assessor during the preceding month pursuant to the tax imposed by section 2552, subsection 1, paragraph G paragraphs G and H to the Medical Care Services Other Special Revenue Funds account in the Department of Human Services or, the Other Special Revenue funds Mental Health Services - Community Medicaid program, the Medicaid Services - Mental Retardation program and the Office of Substance Abuse - Medicaid Seed program within the Department of Behavioral and Developmental Health and Human Services.

     Sec. VV-5. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,
DEPARTMENT OF (FORMERLY BDS)
Mental Health Services - Community Medicaid 0732
Initiative: Reduces funding to be replaced by dedicated revenue from extending the service provider tax to facilitate MaineCare reimbursement of community support services.
GENERAL FUND     2005-06     2006-07

All Other     ($912,380)     ($912,380)

     __________     __________

GENERAL FUND TOTAL     ($912,380)     ($912,380)

OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE
FUNDS     2005-06     2006-07

All Other     $1,400,000      $1,400,000

     __________     __________

OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE
FUNDS TOTAL               $1,400,000      $1,400,000

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,
DEPARTMENT OF (FORMERLY BDS)
DEPARTMENT TOTALS     2005-06     2006-07

GENERAL FUND     ($912,380)     ($912,380)
OTHER SPECIAL
REVENUE     $1,400,000      $1,400,000

     __________     __________

DEPARTMENT TOTAL -
ALL FUNDS               $487,620      $487,620

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,
DEPARTMENT OF (FORMERLY DHS)
Medical Care - Payments to Providers 0147
Initiative: Provides funding for the federal match required from extending the service provider tax to facilitate MaineCare reimbursement of community support services.
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND     2005-06     2006-07

All Other     $912,380      $912,380

     __________     __________

FEDERAL EXPENDITURES
FUND TOTAL               $912,380      $912,380

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,
DEPARTMENT OF (FORMERLY DHS)
DEPARTMENT TOTALS     2005-06     2006-07

FEDERAL EXPENDITURES
FUND     $912,380      $912,380

     __________     __________

DEPARTMENT TOTAL -
ALL FUNDS               $912,380      $912,380

SECTION TOTALS     2005-06     2006-07

GENERAL FUND     ($912,380)     ($912,380)
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE
FUNDS     $1,400,000      $1,400,000
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES
FUND     $912,380      $912,380

     __________     __________

SECTION TOTAL -
ALL FUNDS               $1,400,000      $1,400,000

About the 1st Regular & 1st Special Session Laws Of Maine

Contact the Office of the Revisor of Statutes