An Act To Further the Transition to the New Department of Health and Human Services
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 1642
Committee: Health and Human Services
Sponsors: MAYO, PINGREE, HOBBINS, ROSEN, WESTON, LEWIN, TRAHAN
Amends: 2 MRSA §6, 5 MRSA §946-A

Legislative Document 
No. 1642 
S.P.608 
In Senate, May 3, 2005 
An Act To Further the Transition to the New Department of Health 
and Human Services 
Reference to the Committee on Health and Human Services suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Senator MAYO of Sagadahoc. ( GOVERNOR'S BILL) 
Cosponsored by Representative PINGREE of North Haven and 
JOY J. O'BRIEN 
Secretary of the Senate 
Senators: HOBBINS of York, ROSEN of Hancock, WESTON of Waldo, Representatives: 
LEWIN of Eliot, TRAHAN of Waldoboro. 
Printed on recycled paper 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 2 MRSA §6, sub-§2, as amended by PL 2003, c. 689, Pt. 
C, §3, is further amended to read: 
2. 
Range 90. 
The salaries of the following state officials 
and employees are within salary range 90: 
Superintendent of Financial Institutions: 
State Tax Assessor: 
Superintendent of Insurance: 
Executive Director of the Maine Consumer Choice Health Plan: 
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Commissioner, 
Financial Services: 
Department 
of 
Administrative 
and 
Associate Commissioner 
for Adult Services, 
Department of 
Corrections; 
Associate Commissioner for Juvenile Services, Department of 
Corrections: 
Public Advocate; 
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Deputy 
Comm.i.s~n.er of Integrated Services, Department of 
Health and Human Services; 
Deputy 
Commissioner 
of 
Health. 
Integrated 
Access 
and 
Strategy, Department of Health and Human Services; 
Chief Information Officer; and 
Associate Commissioner for Legislative and Program Services, 
Department of Corrections. 
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Sec. 2. 2 MRSA §6, sub-§3, as 'amended by PL 2005, c. 12, Pt. 
SS, §2, is further amended to read: 
3. 
Range 
89. 
The 
salaries 
of 
the 
following 
state 
officials and employees are within salary range 89: 
Director, Bureau of General Services; 
Director, 
Bureau 
Operations; 
of 
State Budget Officer; 
State Controller; 
Alcoholic 
Director of the Bureau of Forestry; 
Chief of the State Police; 
Director, State Planning Office; 
Director, Energy Resources Office; 
Director of Human Resources; 
Beverages 
and 
Lottery 
Commissioner of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management; 
Director, Bureau of Parks and Lands; and 
Director of Econometric Research. 
Sec. 3. 5 MRSA §946-A, sub-§l, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 689, 
Pt. C, §6, is amended to read: 
1. 
Major 
policy-influencing 
positions. 
The 
following 
positions 
are 
major 
policy-influencing 
positions 
within 
the 
Department of Health and Human Services. 
Notwithstanding any 
other 
prov~s~ons of law, 
these positions and their successor 
positions are subject to this chapter: 
A. 
Deputy commissioners; 
C-l. 
Director, Office of MaineCare Services; 
C-2. 
Director, Office of Integrated Access and Support: 
C-3. 
State Health Office_r and Director, Maine Center for 
Disease Control and Prevention: 
C-4. 
Director, Office of Adult Mental Health Services: 
C-5. 
Director, Office of Adults with Cognitive and Physical 
Disability Services: 
C-6. 
Director, Office of Child and Family Services: 
C-7. 
Director, Office of Elder Services: 
C 8. 
Director, Office of Substance Abuse Services: 
E 1. 
System integration directors: 
F. 
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Superintendents 
of 
Bangor 
Mental 
Health 
Institute and Riverview Psychiatric Center; aBe 
G. 
Director of legal affairsT or general counsel; 
H. 
Director of Legislative Affairs; 
I. 
Director of Public and Employee Communication; 
J. 
Directors of special projects; 
K. 
Chief Information Officer; and 
L. 
Director of Strategic Human Resources Management and 
Organizational Deyelopment. 
Sec. 4. 22·A MRSA §201, sub·§2, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 689, 
Pt. A, §l, is amended to read: 
2. 
Units. 
The 
department consists of the 
By~eaYS--aBe 
eivisieBS following units necessary to carry out the work of the 
departmentTl 
A. 
The Health, Integrated Access and Strategy Unit, which 
includes: 
(1) 
The Office of MaineCare Services; 
t 
, 
(2) 
The 
Maine 
Center 
fQr 
Disease 
CQntrQl 
and 
PreventiQn, which includes minQrity health services: and 
(3) 
The Office Qf Integrated Access and SUPPQrt: 
B. 
The OperatiQns and SUPPQrt Unit: 
C. 
The Finance Unit, which includes: 
(1) 
The Office Qf Budget Planning and Analysis: 
(2) 
The Office 
Qf 
Audit 
fQr 
MaineCare 
and SQcial 
Services: and 
(3) 
The Office of Accounting and Cash Management: and 
D. 
The Integrated Services Unit, which includes: 
(1) 
The Office of Adult Mental Health Services; 
(2) 
The Office of Adults with CQgnitive and Physical 
Disabili ty Services; 
(3) 
The Office of Advocacy Services: 
( 4) 
The Office of Child and Family Services: 
(5 } 
The Office of EIQer Services; 
(6) 
The State Forensic Service: 
(7) 
The Office Qf Substance Abuse Services: and 
( 8 ) 
The 
Office 
of 
Integrated 
Services 
Ouality 
Improvement. 
Sec. 5. Department's accounting structure. 
On or before October 
1, 
2005, 
the Commissioner of Health and Human Services shall 
submi t 
to the Governor, the Joint Standing Committee on Health 
and 
Human 
Services 
and 
the 
Joint 
Standing 
Committee 
on 
Appropriations 
and Financial Affairs 
a 
plan to create a 
new 
budget and financial management system and reporting structure 
for the Department of Health and Human Services. 
The recommended 
structure must address security and authority issues, reporting 
administration, 
position 
administration, 
performance 
budget 
administration, biennial budget issues, budget document issues 
and annual reports issues. 
The commissioner shall invite the 
following or their designees to join a working group to aid in 
the 
preparation of 
the 
new 
budget 
and 
financial 
management 
structure: 
the department's Deputy Commissioner of Finance, the 
State Budget Officer, the State Controller, the Director of the 
Office of Fiscal and Program Review and the Director of the 
Office of Policy and Legal Analysis. 
Sec. 6. 
Functions and duties; rules, guidelines, policies and 
manuals. 
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary 
and in accordance with Public Law 2003, chapter 689, the uni ts 
established within the Department of Health and Human Services 
pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 22-A, section 201, 
subsection 2 shall assume the functions and the duties of the 
bureaus, divisions and offices established under Title 22 
and 
Title 34-B and the Office of Substance Abuse established under 
Title 5, chapter 521. 
Notwithstanding Title 5, chapter 375 and 
in accordance with Public Law 2003, chapter 689, Part B, section 
1, all rules, guidelines, policies, manuals and similar documents 
adopted by or distributed by either the former Department of 
Human 
Services 
or 
the 
former 
Department 
of 
Behavioral 
and 
Developmental Services that are in effect as of the effective 
date of this Act remain in effect until rescinded, revised or 
amended, 
without regard to references therein to departmental 
offices, 
bureaus, 
divisions, 
units 
or 
employee 
titles 
or 
classifications that may no longer exist or that may be changed 
in the future. 
SUMMARY 
This bill furthers the transition to the new Department of 
Health and Human Services as follows. 
1. 
It eliminates 
from 
certain now-defunct positions 
Services 
and 
the 
former 
Developmental Services. 
the 
law governing salary ranges 
from the former Department of Human 
Department 
of 
Behavioral 
and 
2. 
It establishes the salaries of the Deputy Commissioner 
of Integrated Services and the Deputy Commissioner of Health, 
Integrated Access and Strategy in the Department of Health and 
Human Services. 
3. 
It 
establishes 
a 
number 
of 
positions 
as 
major 
policy-influencing positions within the Department of Health and 
Human Services. 
4. 
It 
establishes 
within 
the 
department 
the 
Integrated Access and Strategy Unit: the Operations and 
Unit: the Finance Unit: and the Integrated Services Unit. 
Health, 
Support 
5. 
It directs the Commissioner of Health and Human Services 
to create 
a 
new 
budget 
and financial 
management 
system 
and 
reporting structure for the department. 
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6. 
It specifies that the units established within the 
department 
assume 
the 
functions 
and 
duties 
of 
the 
bureaus, 
divisions 
and 
offices 
established 
under 
the 
Maine 
Revised 
Statutes, Title 22 and Title 34-B and the Office of Substance 
Abuse established under Title 5, chapter 521. 
It also specifies 
that the 
rules, 
guidelines, 
policies and manuals 
adopted or 
distributed by the former Department of Human Services or the 
former 
Department 
of 
Behavioral 
and 
Developmental 
Services 
continue in effect without regard to 
references 
to offices, 
bureaus, divisions, units or employee titles that no longer exist.