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343An Act To Set Aside Funds from Federal Block Grants for Certain CommunitiesRep. Talbot-RossHHSThis bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to annually set aside 20% of each federal block grant it receives for the most vulnerable communities in the State and at least 12% of each federal block grant it receives for federally recognized Indian nations, tribes and bands in the State.Carried Over
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415Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services To Increase MaineCare Reimbursement Rates for Targeted Case Management Services To Reflect InflationRep. StearnsHHSThis resolve requires the Department of Health and Human Services to amend its rules governing MaineCare reimbursement for targeted case management services to provide an increase reflecting cost increases from 2010 to 2020.AFA Table (carried over)
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428An Act To Prevent Tax Haven AbuseRep. TeplerTAXThis bill requires corporations that file unitary income tax returns in Maine to include income from certain jurisdictions outside the United States in net income when apportioning income among tax jurisdictions. The State Tax Assessor is required to adopt major substantive rules to determine the income or loss attributable to such corporations and to prevent double taxation or deduction of income. The assessor is required to submit an annual report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over taxation matters regarding whether jurisdictions should be added to or deleted from the list of tax havens based on specified criteria.02.22.2022 10:00 AM, Room 127
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432An Act To Improve Behavioral Health Care for ChildrenRep. MadiganHHSThis resolve requires the Department of Health and Human Services to amend rule Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter II, Section 65 to reimburse for additional collateral contacts for children's home and community-based treatment. Those additional collateral contacts are between the child's mental health professional and parents, medical providers, psychiatric providers, residential providers, case managers and school personnel as long as the goal of the collateral contact is included in the goals of the individual treatment plan.AFA Table (carried over)
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496An Act To Clear Waiting Lists and Ensure Timely Access to Mental Health Services for Maine ChildrenRep. GramlichHHSThis bill provides funding to increase rates in rule Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 65, Behavioral Health Services, Children's Home and Community Based Treatment and Section 97, Appendix D, Principles of Reimbursement for Child Care Facilities by 30% no later than July 1, 2021.AFA Table (carried over)
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512An Act to Increase the Number of Intensive Case ManagersRep. DodgeHHSThis bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services to create additional intensive case manager positions so that counties that do not have a county jail or regional jail will have an intensive case manager. An intensive case manager oversees persons who are detained by a law enforcement officer and who have intellectual disabilities or mental health conditions or have misused substances and connects them to the services for which they qualify, works with the court system to ensure that they receive due process and speedy trials and assists persons who qualify for the MaineCare program to apply for and receive MaineCare benefits and services while being detained or incarcerated, including during the implementation of diversion and reentry plans.AFA Table (carried over)
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582Resolve, To Support the Fidelity and Sustainability of Assertive Community TreatmentRep. MadiganHHSThis bill modifies the definition of "assertive community treatment" to better align the definition with an evidence-based treatment model. The bill adds definitions of "psychiatric provider" and "medical assistant" and changes the description of the composition of the multidisciplinary teams that provide assertive community treatment. The bill also requires the Department of Health and Human Services to increase the MaineCare reimbursement rates for assertive community treatment by 25% immediately to allow providers to continue to offer the service. The bill also requires the department to adopt rules to transition to a per member, per month payment model and to reform the criteria and operation of the program to ensure its fidelity to the evidence-based model for assertive community treatment services.AFA Table (carried over)
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629Resolve, To Establish the Task Force To Study Improving Safety and Provide Protection from Violence for Health Care Workers in Hospitals and Mental Health Care ProvidersRep. RisemanHHSThis resolve establishes the Task Force To Study Improving Safety and Provide Protection from Violence for Health Care Workers in Hospitals and Mental Health Care Providers. The task force is directed to submit a report and any suggested legislation for presentation to the Second Regular Session of the 130th Legislature by December 1, 2021.Carried Over
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696Amended - “An Act to Restrict the Use of Solitary Confinement, Segregated Confinement and Residential Rehabilitation in Maine’s Prisons and
Jails		Rep. LooknerCJPSThis bill prohibits solitary confinement in jails and prisons in the State. It defines "solitary confinement" to mean that a prisoner is segregated and has contact with another person less than 3 times a day.TABLED
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718An Act To Improve the Health of Maine Residents by Closing Coverage Gaps in the MaineCare Program and the Children's Health Insurance ProgramRep. Talbot-RossHHSThis bill provides MaineCare program and the Children's Health Insurance Program coverage for noncitizen residents of this State who are ineligible for coverage under the federal Medicaid program or Children's Health Insurance Program due to their immigration statusCarried Over
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794An Act to Maintain Maine's System of Therapeutic Foster Care for Children Through the Creation of a Nonprofit Risk Indemnification TrustSen. Heather SanbornHCIFSThis emergency bill proposes to direct the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Bureau of Insurance and the Department of Health and Human Services to develop a state nonprofit risk indemnification trust to provide liability insurance coverage for entities such as state-contracted providers of therapeutic foster care that are unable to obtain affordable coverage through ordinary means and when coverage is required by law or is necessary for the conduct of a public purpose. The bill proposes to indemnify nonprofit beneficiary organizations and their officers, directors and agents for financial loss due to the imposition of legal liability.Carried Over
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861Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to Contract for Assessments for Involuntary HospitalizationsRep. EvansJUDPublic Law 2019, chapter 411 requires the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a request for proposals, or RFP, for technology-supported assessments of foreseeable harm for the purposes of involuntary hospitalization. The RFP has yet to be issued. This resolve directs the department to move forward with contracts for assessments and provides that until the contracts are issued, qualified medical practitioners employed by the State's psychiatric hospitals shall perform the assessments.TABLED
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886Resolve, To Encourage Employment in the Direct Care WorkforceRep. FayLBHSThis emergency resolve directs the Department of Labor, in coordination with the Department of Economic and Community Development and the Department of Health and Human Services, to develop and implement a multimedia public service campaign that promotes direct care worker jobs as a career choice.AFA Table (carried over)
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898An Act to Create the Essential Support Workforce Advisory CommitteeRep. FayLBHSThis amendment replaces the bill, which is a concept draft. It establishes the Essential Support Workforce Advisory Committee to advise the Legislature, Governor and executive branch agencies on the essential support workforce.OTP 8
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1080Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to Update the Rights of Recipients of Mental Health ServicesRep. StoverHHSThis resolve directs the Department of Health and Human Services to update the rights of recipients of mental health services regarding treatment, the delivery structure and the entities that oversee the safe and effective delivery of mental health services, including to align the rights with contractual agreements with service providers, current federal and state privacy laws and best practices for the delivery of clinically appropriate assessment and treatment models for persons with mental illness.Engrossed by House
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1175An Act To Prohibit Excessive Telephone, Video and Commissary Charges in Maine Jails and PrisonsRep. KinneyCJPSThis bill prohibits the Department of Corrections, county jails and municipal detention facilities from accepting a commission or charging a fee for the provision of services from an outside provider to incarcerated individuals, including telephone, video and commissary services. This bill also requires the department to negotiate contracts for services, allowing county jails to opt in, at the lowest cost to the client. A contract for services may not include a connection fee. A contract for telephone services may not exceed a rate of 11¢ per minute and must allow incarcerated individuals to receive 2 15-minute telephone calls per week at no charge.TABLED
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1196An Act Regarding Targets for Health Plan Investments in Primary Care and Behavioral HealthRep. ZagerHCIFSThis bill requires health carriers to meet certain targets for investment and spending in primary care and behavioral health care beginning in plan year 2023 and through plan year 2026. Overall spending may not increase to meet the targets. The bill establishes a benchmark for combined spending in primary care and behavioral health care as a percentage of overall health spending. The benchmark is indexed to the median amount spent by carriers on primary care and behavioral health care for plan year 2019. The bill requires carriers to increase relative spending in these areas by at least 2% per year if spending is less than or equal to the median and at least 1% per year if spending is above the median. Beginning in plan year 2027, carriers are required to maintain, at a minimum, the total combined spending on primary care and behavioral health care achieved in plan year 2026. The bill prohibits the Superintendent of Insurance from approving health insurance rates filed by a carrier unless the carrier demonstrates that the targets have been met. The bill also authorizes a carrier to meet the spending targets by supplemental payments focused on primary care and behavioral health care.
The bill also requires the MaineCare program and the state employee health plan to meet the same targets beginning in 2023.		Carried Over
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1360An Act To Provide Services to Maine's Most Vulnerable Citizens by Eliminating the Waiting Lists for Certain MaineCare ServicesSen KeimHHSAn Act To Provide Services to Maine's Most Vulnerable Citizens by Eliminating the Waiting Lists for Certain MaineCare ServicesAFA Table (carried over)
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1428An Act To Increase the Availability of Naloxone in Community SettingsRep. DodgeHHSThis bill allows community organizations, which are defined as private or nonprofit organizations operating a facility that serves the community, to store and administer nasal naloxone hydrochloride upon a standing order from a licensed health care professional authorized by law to prescribe nasal naloxone hydrochloride.Carried Over
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1463An Act To Make Health Care Coverage More Affordable for
Working Families and Small Businesses		Rep. TeplerHCIFSThis bill:
1. Establishes the Maine Health Care Affordability Fund to fund activities and initiatives to reduce the cost of health insurance coverage for Maine residents;
2. Requires the Commissioner of Health and Human Services to adopt rules for the administration of the Maine Health Care Affordability Fund and for the disbursement of funds from the fund to assist Maine residents with the cost of health care coverage;
3. Establishes the health care affordability assessment to provide funding to the Maine Health Care Affordability Fund and requires the Superintendent of Insurance within the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation to adopt rules for the administration and enforcement of the health care affordability assessment;
4. Requires state agencies to provide technical assistance to the commissioner and the superintendent for the administration of the Maine Health Care Affordability Fund or the health care affordability assessment upon request;
5. Establishes the Affordable Health Care Advisory Group, which consists of the commissioner, the superintendent and 11 additional members appointed by the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Governor, to consult on the development of rules to implement and administer the Maine Health Care Affordability Fund and the health care affordability assessment; and
6. Requires the commissioner to submit an annual report to the Governor and the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health insurance matters describing activities and initiatives funded by the Maine Health Care Affordability Fund to increase the affordability of health insurance for Maine residents and summarizing the findings and recommendations of the Affordable Health Care Advisory Group by February 1st. The commissioner is also required to make the report publicly available online.		Carried Over
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1523An Act To Establish the Trust for a Healthy MaineRep. Talbot-RossHHSThis bill establishes the Trust for a Healthy Maine to receive money paid to the State pursuant to the tobacco settlement and from other sources and to distribute that money to state agencies or designated agents of the State to fund tobacco use prevention and control, ensure adequate resources for other disease prevention efforts, promote public health, plan and deliver public health and prevention programs and services, support accreditation of the Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and support public health workforce development. The trust is governed by a 15-member board of trustees composed of the Director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and 14 members appointed by the Governor.02.18.2022 10:00 AM, Room 209
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1550An Act To End the Sale of Flavored Tobacco ProductsRep. MeyerHHSThis bill prohibits the sale and distribution of flavored tobacco products, including flavored cigars and electronic smoking devices.Carried Over
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1552An Act To Provide Reentry Services to Persons Reentering the Community after IncarcerationRep. Talbot-RossCJPSThis bill:
1. Establishes the Community-based Reentry Services Account as a special nonlapsing account within the Department of Corrections to issue grants to community-based nonprofit and faith-based organizations that provide or seek to provide reentry services to adults or juveniles reentering the community after incarceration, referred to as reentry service providers;
2. Requires the department to administer the Community-based Reentry Services Account and fund it by applying for federal and grant funding, including through the federal Second Chance Act of 2007, or transferring other available funds;
3. Requires the department to use the funds available in the Community-based Reentry Services Account to award grants to one or more reentry service providers to establish or provide reentry services programs, including assessment and planning of reentry services; individual case management or system navigation services; peer-to-peer mentoring; housing assistance; housing development; job training and placement services; medical and behavioral health assessment, treatment and support; parenting skills and family support services; development of a substance use disorder treatment program as an alternative to incarceration for primary caregivers; and organization of community and victim impact panels or educational classes;
4. Permits an individual who previously provided mentoring services to an incarcerated adult or juvenile to continue to provide mentoring services to that adult or juvenile as part of a reentry services program unless the department demonstrates that doing so poses a significant security risk to the individual, the adult or juvenile or any other individual;
5. Requires a reentry service provider to submit an application to the department that describes the reentry services program to be funded and the need for the program, a long-term strategy and implementation plan for the program and the reentry service provider's experience working with formerly incarcerated individuals and individuals from marginalized communities; identifies any entity, including any governmental agency, community organization or faith community, the reentry service provider will coordinate or partner with; contains an annual budget for the program; and describes the method and outcome measures that the reentry service provider will use to evaluate the reentry services program;
6. Requires the department to adopt rules for the administration of the Community-based Reentry Services Account, the evaluation of grant applications from reentry service providers and the distribution of grants from the account;
7. Requires the department to adopt rules requiring an individual participating in a substance use disorder treatment program who does not successfully complete the program to serve an appropriate sentence of imprisonment with respect to the underlying crime and requiring that the individual be notified of this requirement before the individual begins the program;
8. Requires a reentry service provider that receives a grant from the Community-based Reentry Services Account to submit a report for each fiscal year in which the reentry service provider spends funds from the grant containing a summary of the activities carried out under the reentry services program, an assessment of whether the reentry service provider is meeting the need specified in its grant application and any other information the department may require; and
9. Requires the Commissioner of Corrections to submit a report at the end of each fiscal year to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice and public safety matters and the Governor containing assessments of the impact of reentry services funded through the Community-based Reentry Services Account on various factors and statistics on the relative reduction in recidivism for inmates released by the department within that fiscal year and the 4 prior fiscal years and comparing the rates of recidivism of individuals that participated in reentry services programs that received a grant to individuals that did not.		02.18.2022 10:00 AM, Room 436
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1586An Act to Strengthen Statewide Mental Health Peer Support, Crisis Intervention Mobile Response and Crisis Stabilization Unit Services. And Allow E911 to Dispatch to the Crisis SystemRep. WarrenHHSThe proposal provides funding of $4,401,303 in State Fiscal Year 2020-21 for mental health services in the eight public health districts that include peer support, crisis line, crisis intervention mobile response and crisis stabilization unit services. The amendment provides funding for ancillary services for mobile response services for necessary travel and telephone conferences with clients. The amendment also provides funding for a public education campaign to educate the public about the availability mental health services peer support, crisis line, crisis intervention mobile response and crisis stabilization unit services and the means by which members of the public and law enforcement agencies may access those services throughout the state.

The proposal also creates a framework whereby our E911 system can dispatch to crisis system in response to a mental health emergency.		AFA Table (carried over)
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1608An Act To Expand the MaineCare Program To Cover All Citizens of the StateRep. SylvesterHHSThis bill establishes a single-payer health care program in the State that provides health care services for Maine residents. The bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services to consult with the Department of Labor and the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Bureau of Insurance to develop the program. The bill requires the State to implement the program in 4 phases, based on income, beginning in 2023 for those residents not already eligible for the MaineCare program. The bill also creates the MaineCare for All Implementation Task Force to advise the departments and make recommendations to fully implement the single-payer health care program. The program may not be implemented in 2023 without prior legislative approval.ONTP 9 OTP - AM 4
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1693An Act To Advance Health Equity, Improve the Well-being of All Maine People and Create a Health TrustRep. MillettHHSPart A establishes the Trust for a Healthy Maine to receive money paid to the Statepursuant to the tobacco settlement and from other sources and to distribute that money to state agencies or designated agents of the State to fund tobacco use prevention and control, ensure adequate resources for other disease prevention efforts, promote public health, plan and deliver public health and prevention programs and services, support accreditation of the Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and support public health workforce development. The trust is governed by a 15-member board of trustees composed of the Director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and 14 members appointed by the Governor. Part B establishes the Office of Health Equity within the Department of Health and Human Services. The office is tasked with providing advice to the Commissioner of Health and Human Services, the Governor's Office of Policy Innovation and the Future and other state agencies, the Legislature and the Governor on health systems, policies and practices; providing recommendations to advance health equity in all sectors and settings; producing and updating a state health equity plan; and producing an annual Maine Health Equity Report Card. Part C requires the Department of Education to revise its nutrition, physical activity, screen time and sugary drink standards to increase obesity prevention in early care andeducation and to revise its school nutrition and physical activity standards to increaseobesity prevention in public schools and requires those standards to match those specified by various national organizations and federal agencies. Part D prohibits the sale and distribution of flavored tobacco products, including flavored cigars and electronic smoking devices. Part E increases the tax on cigarettes from 100 mills to 200 mills per cigarette effective November 1, 2021 and eliminates the provision that allows the sale of cigarette stamps to licensed distributors at a discount. The amount of increased revenue from the cigarette tax is credited to the Fund for a Healthy Maine. Part E also provides funding for the health initiatives in the bill.02.18.2022 10:00 AM, Room 209
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1722An Act To Ensure Access to All Paths to Recovery for Persons Affected by Opioids Using Money Obtained through Litigation against Opioid ManufacturersRep. WarrenHHSThis bill directs all funds awarded through opioid litigation and settlements to the Opioid and Substance Use Abatement Fund administered by the Attorney General for the purpose of remediating and addressing the substance use crisis in Maine through prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery. These funds may not supplant federal funding or state appropriations directed toward prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery or funds received from prior opioid litigation and settlements or court orders.
The bill also establishes the Maine Opioid and Substance Use Abatement Advisory Commission to review opioid and substance use related information and determine how Opioid and Substance Use Abatement Fund funds are to be spent to carry out the purposes of the fund. The bill requires the Attorney General to convene, at least twice annually, a stakeholder group to develop and review performance indicators and to develop and provide recommendations concerning disbursements and allocations from the fund to recommend to the commission. The bill requires the Attorney General to award fund funds as directed by the commission and to annually report and provide information about received and expended funds to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health and human services matters.		Carried Over
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1728An Act To Provide Assistance to Law Enforcement Officers To Allow Them To Protect the Residents of the StateSen. TimberlakeJUDConcept Draft - I am working with the group to formulate the legislaiton.TABLED
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1758An Act Regarding Access to Telehealth Behavioral Health Services during Public Health EmergenciesRep. MadiganHHSThis bill provides that the Department of Health and Human Services may not require a licensed mental health facility or licensed substance use disorder treatment facility to obtain written informed consent from a client during a federal or state public health emergency. The licensed facility may instead obtain a client’s consent verbally, electronically or in writing. The bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services to, no later than January 1, 2023, amend its rules in 14-193 C.M.R. Chapter 6, Licensing of Mental Health Facilities, and 14-118 C.M.R. Chapter 5, Regulations for Licensing and Certifying of Substance Abuse Treatment Programs, to meet the requirements of this legislation.TABLED
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1778An Act To Improve Health Care Affordability and Increase Options for Comprehensive Coverage for Individuals and Small Businesses in MaineRep. EvansHCIFSThis bill directs the Office of Affordable Health Care, beginning in 2023, to analyze barriers to affordable health care and coverage and develop proposals on potential methods to improve health care affordability and coverage for individuals and small businesses in the State. It also requires the office to study the effects of policies aimed at improving health care affordability and coverage, including effects on the affordability of premiums and cost-sharing in the individual and small group health insurance markets, and the effects of the policies on enrollment in comprehensive health coverage. It directs the office to provide a report of its findings to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health coverage and insurance matters no later than January 1, 2023.OTP 8
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1822An Act To Improve Access to Behavioral Health Services by Prohibiting Cost Sharing by InsurersRep. MoralesHCIFSThis bill prohibits insurance carriers offering a health plan that provides or covers any benefits with respect to behavioral health services from applying a copayment, deductible, coinsurance or other cost-sharing requirement to those behavioral health services.01.11.2022 10:00 AM, Room 220
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1848An Act To Increase the Availability of Assertive Community Treatment ServicesRep. MadiganHHSThis bill amends the behavioral and developmental services law regarding mental health hospitalization to add the definition of "prescriber," which is defined to mean a licensed health care provider with authority to prescribe, including a licensed physician, certified nurse practitioner or licensed physician assistant who has training or experience in psychopharmacology. It also amends the definition of "assertive community treatment" to change the composition of the multidisciplinary team that provides assertive community treatment by removing reference to the term "psychiatrist" and replacing it with the term "prescriber" and by providing that a licensed practical nurse may be a member of the team in lieu of a registered nurse if the prescriber is not a certified nurse practitioner.OTP - AM
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1850An Act To Ensure the Continuation of Services to Maine Children and Families through the Alternative Response ProgramRep. HymansonHHSThis bill provides ongoing funding for the Department of Health and Human Services to continue the alternative response program services contract.02.22.2022 1:00 PM, Room 209
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1860An Act To Address Maine's Suicide and Opioid Crises through the Construction of Affordable Recovery Facilities in Underserved Areas of the StateSen MooreHHSThis bill proposes to direct new federal money to construct affordable recovery facilities in underserved areas in order to better address the State's suicide and opioid crises.
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1862An Act To Strengthen Maine's Good Samaritan LawsSen. MaxminCJPSThis bill extends the State's Good Samaritan laws by exempting from arrest or prosecution for a nonviolent offense or for a violation of probation or condition of release a person at the location of a drug-related overdose for which medical assistance was sought or naloxone was administered.TABLED
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1867An Act To Codify MaineCare Rate System ReformRep. MeyerHHSThis bill formalizes the Department of Health and Human Services’ MaineCare provider reimbursement rate system reform effort by establishing rate development principles and processes, specifying rule-making requirements for rate adjustments, ensuring access to a funding source, as needed, for associated rate adjustments and establishing an expert technical advisory panel to assist the Commissioner of Health and Human Services on MaineCare rates and payment models.02.02.2022 1:00 PM Room 209
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1877An Act To Prohibit Prior Authorization Requirements and Step Therapy Protocols for Medications Addressing Serious Mental Illness for MaineCare RecipientsRep. MadiganHHSThis bill prohibits prior authorization requirements and step therapy protocols under the MaineCare program for prescription drugs used to assess or treat serious mental illness02.02.2022 1:00 PM Room 209
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1909An Act To Remove Restrictions on Syringe Service ProgramsRep. McDonaldHHSThis bill prohibits a hypodermic apparatus exchange program from limiting distribution of hypodermic apparatuses to program participants or requiring the exchange of used hypodermic apparatuses.OTP - AM 8
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1910An Act To Improve Children's Mental Health by Requiring Insurance Coverage for Certain Mental Health TreatmentRep. TeplerHCIFSThis bill requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for mental health treatment services that use evidence-based practices that are recommended by a provider for a child 18 years of age or younger. The bill defines "evidence-based practices" as clinically sound and scientifically based policies, practices and programs that reflect expert consensus on the prevention, treatment and recovery science published and disseminated by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The bill’s requirements apply to health plans with an effective date on or after January 1, 2023.01.27.2022 10:00 AM, Room 220
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1920An Act To Enact the Interstate Counseling Compact To Address Inequities in Access to Clinical Counseling Services and Increase Maine's Provider WorkforceRep. McCreightHCIFSThis bill enacts the Interstate Counseling Compact, which provides a mechanism to facilitate interstate practice of licensed professional counselors in order to improve public access to professional counseling services. The form, format and text of the Interstate Counseling Compact have been changed minimally so as to conform to Maine statutory conventions. The changes are technical in nature and it is the intent of the Legislature that this compact be interpreted as substantively the same as the Interstate Counseling Compact that is enacted by other member states.OTP - AM
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1968An Act To Expand Access to Mental Health and Crisis Care for Individuals in Jails and Individuals Experiencing HomelessnessRep. Talbot RossThis bill proposes to create pathways to alleviate the crisis of individuals experiencing homelessness and individuals languishing in the county jail system who are suffering from acute mental health crises and substance use disorder by implementing the following measures to improve their access to psychiatric treatment, wraparound services, supportive housing and other services that are part of the continuum of care:
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An Act To Support Health Care Workers by Providing Hazard Reimbursements and Hazard PayPres. Jackson
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An Act To Increase the Availability of In-state Inpatient Mental Health Treatment for Challenging PatientsDHHSThis is a placeholder we submitted in case it was needed to address acuity issues. We have not decided whether to move forward with it yet.
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An Act To Address Burnout among Nurses and improve Patient CareSen. Brenner
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An Act To Require Cultural Competency Training in State-licensed Assisted Living Facilities, Nursing Homes, Rehabilitation Facilities and Independent Living FacilitiesSpeaker Fecteau
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