Resolve, To Increase Eligibility for Consumer-directed Personal Care Assistance Services To Promote Independence for Maine Citizens
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 1904
Committee Amendment CA_A_S465 (Senate)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ,A, to S.P. 748, L.D. 1904, "Resolve, 
To 
Increase 
Eligibility 
for 
Consumer-directed 
Personal 
Care 
Assistance Services To Promote Independence for Maine Citizens" 
Amend the resolve in section 1 in the 3rd line (page 1, line 
in L.D.) by inserting after the following: 
"for the" the 
following: 
'state-funded portion of the' 
Further amend the bill by inserting after section 1 the 
following: 
'Sec. 2. Appropriations and allocations. Resolved: 
following appropriations and allocations are made. 
LABOR, DEPAR"DIERT OF 
Rehabilitation Services 
0799 
That 
the 
Initiative: 
Provides ongoing funds to increase eligibility and 
wages in the Home Based Care program. 
Genera1 Fund 
All Other 
General Fund Total 
Page l-LR2510(2) 
2003-04 
$0 
$0 
2004-05 
$595,534 
$595,534' 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT '~" to S.P. 748, L.D. 1904 
SUMMARY 
This amendment directs the Department of Labor to make rules 
only for the state-funded part of the consumer-directed personal 
care assistance program, not for the Medicaid-funded part of the 
program. 
FISCAL :\OT£ REQURED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Net Cost (Savings) 
General Fund 
~propriations/ Allocations 
General Fund 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Approved: 03/24/04 ~ae 
l2lst Maine Legislature 
Office of Fiscal and Program Review 
LD 1904 
Resolve, To Increase Eligibility for Consumer-directed Personal Care 
Assistance Services To Promote Independence for Maine Citizens 
LR2510(02) 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment "/\ 
Committee: Labor 
" 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
2003-04 
2004-05 
$595,534 
$595,534 
Projections 
2005-06 
$608,933 
$608,933 
Projections 
2006-07 
$624,157 
$624,157 
The bill includes an appropriation to the Bureau of Rehabilitation Services within the Department of Labor in fiscal 
year 2004-05 to adopt rules to increase eligibility and wages in the state funded home based care program. This 
estimate assumes a 10% increase in participation and $1 per hour increase in wages for personal care assistants. The 
actual costs of this proposal will either be higher or lower depending on the actual increase in wages and eligibility. 
A 10% increase in participation in the Home Based Care program is estimated to cost the General Fund $297,773 in 
fiscal year 2004-05. The General Fund cost associated with a $1 per hour increase in wages for personal care 
assistants in the Home Based Care program is estimated to be $297,761 in fiscal year 2004-05. 
This fiscal note assumes that the costs associated with increasing participation and wages in the Home Based Care 
program will increase 2.25% in fiscal year 2005-06 and 2.5% in fiscal year 2006-07. 
LD 1919, the Governor's second supplemental budget proposal for fiscal years 2003-04 and 2004-05 includes a 
request to transfer funds appropriated in fiscal years 2003-04 and 2004-05 for the Home Based Care program in the 
Rehabilitation Services (0799) account within the Department of Labor to a newly established Rehabilitation Services· 
Home Based Care program account (0996). If approved, the funds appropriated in this legislation for the Home Based 
Care will be appropriated to the 0996 account within the Department of Labor. 
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