An Act To Implement 2 Recommendations of the Commission on Fatherhood Issues Related to Family Case Management Officers and Noncustodial Parent Outreach Programs
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 1048
Committee: Appropriations and Financial Affairs
Sponsors: SIMPSON

Legislative Document 
No. 1048 
H.P.765 
House of Representatives, February 26, 2003 
An Act To Implement 2 Recommendations of the Commission on 
Fatherhood Issues Related to Family Case Management Officers 
and Noncustodial Parent Outreach Programs 
Reference to the Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs suggested and ordered 
printed. 
Presented by Representative SIMPSON of Auburn. 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 
1. 
Appropriations 
and 
allocations. 
The 
following 
appropriations and allocations are made. 
JUDICIAL DEPAR'l'MEHT 
Courts -
Supreme, Superior and District 
Initiative: 
Provides for the appropriation of funds to establish 
additional Family Division Case Management Officer positions to 
support the 31 District Court locations throughout the State. 
These 5 positions will be funded 1/3 by the General Fund and 2/3 
by the Federal Expenditures 
Fund. 
The 
positions will 
be 
devoted to the Family Division of the District Court. 
General Fund 
Personal Services 
General Fund Total 
Federal Expenditures Fund 
Positions - Legislative Count 
Personal Services 
Federal Expenditures Fund 
JUDICIAL DEPAR'l'MEHT 
DEPAR'DIE6T TOTALS 
GENERAL FUND 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND 
DEPARTMENT TOTAL -
ALL FUNDS 
ATIORNEY GENERAL, DEPARTMENT OF THE 
Human Services Division 
2003-04 
2004-05 
$159,070 
$172,150 
$159,070 
$172,150 
2003-04 
2004-05 
(5.000) 
(5.000) 
$308,780 
$334,150 
$308,780 
$334,150 
2003-04 
2004-05 
$159,070 
$172,150 
308,780 
334,150 
$467,850 
$506,300 
Initiative: 
Provides for the appropriation of funds to establish 
Outreach 
Investigator 
positions 
in order 
to 
continue 
the 
Noncustodial Parent Outreach and Investigation Project. 
The 
Outreach 
Investigator 
positions will 
be 
funded 
100% 
by 
the 
General Fund. 
General Fund 
Positions - Legislative Count 
Personal Services 
All Other 
General Fund Total 
Page l-LRI764(1) 
2003-04 
(2.000) 
$118,350 
12,808 
$131,158 
2004-05 
(2.000) 
$123,084 
14,808 
$137,892 
ATl'ORNEY GENERAL, DEPAR'l'MENT OF THE 
DEPAR'l'MENT 'l'O'rALS 
2003-04 
2004-05 
GENERAL FUND 
DEPAR'l"MENT 'l'O'rAL -
ALL FUNDS 
SECTION 'l'O'rALS 
GENERAL FUND 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND 
SECTION 'l'O'rAL -
ALL FUNDS 
SUMMARY 
$1.31.,1.58 
$1.31., 1.58 
2003-04 
$290,228 
308,780 
$599,008 
$1.37,892 
$1.37.892 
2004-05 
$31.0.042 
334.1.50 
$644.192 
This 
bill 
implements 
of 
the 
recommendations 
of 
the 
Commission on Fatherhood Issues related to the number of Family 
Division Case Management Officer positions deployed in the Family 
Division of 
the District Court 
and 
the 
continuation of 
the 
Noncustodial Parent Outreach and Investigation Project. 
Under 
this bill, 
additional 
funding is provided to 
the 
Family Division of the District Court in order to increase the 
number of Family Division Case Management Officer positions from 
to 13. 
This bill appropriates the additional funds necessary 
to provide the 
34~ state match that would leverage matching 
federal 
funding 
for 
the 
deployment 
of 
additional 
Family 
Division Case Management Officer positions. 
The bill also appropriates the funds necessary to establish 
Outreach 
Investigator 
positions 
in the 
Department 
of 
the 
Attorney General in order to continue the Noncustodial Parent 
Outreach and Investigation project programs for another 2 years. 
Funded with federal grant funds, the Noncustodial Parent Outreach 
and Investigation Project is currently a pilot project in York 
and Somerset counties; however, federal funding for this pilot 
project will lapse at the end of the 2002-03 fiscal year and 
additional funds are needed to continue and expand the program to 
other parts of Maine.