An Act To Permit the Department of Health and Human Services To Charge Fees to Homestead Facility Residents
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 1492
Committee: Health and Human Services
Sponsors: LERMAN
Amends: 34-B MRSA §1409

Legislative Document 
No. 1492 
H.P.1049 
House of Representatives, March 28,2005 
An Act To Permit the Department of Health and Human Services 
To Charge Fees to Homestead Facility Residents 
Submitted by the Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to Joint Rule 204. 
Reference to the Committee on Health and Human Services suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative LERMAN of Augusta. 
Printed on recycled paper 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 34-B MRSA §1409, sub-§I, 1lB-l is enacted to read: 
B-l. 
"Resident," for purposes of this section and this 
section only, means any of the following: 
(1) 
A person who is an inpatient: 
(2) 
A person who is an outpatient recelvlng services 
from any state institution, including outpatient clinic 
services: or 
(3) 
A resident of the Homestead facility. 
Sec. 2. 34-B MRSA §1409, sub-§l, 1lC, as enacted by PL 1983, c. 
580, §5, is amended to read: 
C. 
"State institution," for purposes of this section and 
this section only, includes the Freeport Towne Square and 
the Homestead facility. 
Sec. 3. 34-B MRSA §1409, sub-§2, 1lA, as enacted by PL 1983, c. 
459, §7, is amended to read: 
A. 
The commissioner shall establish 
care and treatment of residents at 
~ 
adopted 
pursuant 
to 
this 
technical rules pursuant to Title 5, 
by rule charges for the 
any state institution. 
paragraph 
are 
routine 
chapter 375, subchapter 
Sec. 4. 34-B MRSA §1409, sub-§13, as enacted by PL 1991, c. 
528, Pt. Q, §6 and affected Pt. RRR and enacted by c. 591, Pt. Q, 
§6, is amended to read: 
13. 
Special revenue account; Riverview Psychiatric Center 
and 
Homestead facility. 
The 
commissioner 
shall establish 
a 
special revenue account for the 
Atl~tlSl;a-MefH:.-aJ.--Re-a-l-t:b--iBSl;il;tll;e 
Riyerview Psychiatric Center and the Homestead facility and shall 
deposit into it payments or income received from residents of the 
Atl~tlsl;a-~-aJ.-~lk~-IBsl;il;tll;e Riyerview Psychiatric Center and 
the Homestead facility, the Medicaid program or other 3rd-party 
payors. 
The commissioner shall use the funds on deposit for 
expenses 
of 
the 
Atl~tlsl;a--~-aJ.--~lk~--iBSl;i~tll;e 
Riverview 
Psychiatric Center and the Homestead facility. 
Sec. 5. 34-B MRSA §1409, sub-§15, as amended by PL 1993, c. 
508, Pt. J, §1, is further amended to read: 
15. 
General Fund accounts; disproportionate share hospital 
match. 
The commissioner shall establish General Fund accounts to 
provide the 
General 
Fund match for eligible disproportionate 
share hospital components in the A~~~6Ea-~~-~~~-~B6E~E~Ee 
Riverview 
Psychiatric 
Center 
and 
the 
Bangor 
Mental 
Health 
Institute. 
Any 
unencumbered 
balances 
of 
General 
Fund 
appropriations remaining at the end of each fiscal year must be 
carried forward to be used for the same purposes. 
SUMMARY 
This 
bill 
includes 
the 
Homestead 
facility 
among 
state 
institutions for 
which the 
Commissioner of Health and 
Human 
Services is directed to establish charges 
for 
the care 
and 
treatment of residents. 
The bill defines "resident" for this 
purpose 
and 
changes 
"Augusta 
Mental 
Health 
Institute" 
to 
"Riverview Psychiatric Center."