Resolve, To Disabilities
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 0463
Committee Amendment CA_A_S457 (Senate)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to S.P. 150, L.D. 463, 
Amend MaineCare Eligibility for the Workers with 
Option" 
"Resolve, To 
Disabilities 
Amend the resolve in section 1 in the 4th line (page 1, line 
in 
L.D.) 
by 
striking out 
the 
following: 
"January" 
and 
inserting in its place the following: 
'August' 
Further amend the resolve in section 1 in the last line 
(page 1, line 10 in L.D.) by striking out the following: 
"" and 
inserting in its place the following: 
'; and be it further' 
Further amend the resolve by inserting after section 1 the 
following: 
'Sec. 2. Appropriations and allocations. Resolved: 
following appropriations and allocations are made. 
HEALTH AND BIJMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF 
Bureau of Family Independence - Reqional 0453 
That 
the 
Initiative: 
Funds 2 Family Independence Specialist positions and 
related costs to administer the change in MaineCare eligibility 
for 
workers 
with disabilities 
and 
the 
reprogramming 
of 
the 
department's Automated Client Eligibility System (ACES). 
GENERAL FUBD 
POSITIONS -
LEGISLATIVE COUNT 
Page l-LR14l5(2) 
2005-06 
0.000 
2006-07 
1.000 
COMM/rrEE AMENDMENT 
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~~t: 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ·11 " to S.P. 150, L.D. 463 
Personal Services 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
FEDERAL EXPENDI"l'ORES FOND 
POSITIONS -
LEGISLATIVE COUNT 
Personal Services 
All Other 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOTAL 
Medical Care - Payments to Providers 
0147 
$0 
$0 
$0 
2005-06 
0.000 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$49,000 
$26,000 
$75,000 
2006-07 
1.000 
$49,000 
$26,000 
$75,000 
Initiative: 
Funds 
expanding 
the 
number 
of 
workers 
with 
disabilities covered under the MaineCare program. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
FEDERAL EXPENDI'l'ORES FOND 
All Other 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOTAL 
HEALTH AND BtJMAB SERVICES, 
DEPARTMENT OF 
DEPARTMENT "J.'OTALS 
GENERAL FUND 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND 
DEPARTMJ!:NT nYXAL -
ALL FUNDS 
SUMMARY 
2005-06 
$0 
$0 
2005-06 
$0 
$0 
2005-06 
$0 
$0 
$0 
2006-07 
$2,501, 642 
$2,501, 642 
2006-07 
$4,292,605 
$4,292,605 
2006-07 
$2,576,642 
$4,367,605 
$6,944,247' 
The resolve requires the Department of Health and Human 
Services to amend its eligibility rules to allow. employed persons 
with 
disabilities 
to 
purchase 
MaineCare 
coverage 
beginning 
January 1, 2006. 
This amendment changes that date to August 1, 
2006 and adds an appropriations and allocations section to the 
resolve. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 01106/06 ~ac. 
LD463 
LR 1415(02) 
Resolve, To Amend MaineCare Eligibility for the Workers with Disabilities Option 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment ,~ " 
Committee: Health and Human Services 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Projections 
2005-06 
2006-07 
2007-08 
Net Cost (Savings) 
General Fund 
$0 
$2,576,642 
$2,996,966 
. ,ppropriations/ Allocations 
General Fund 
$0 
$2,576,642 
$2,996,966 
Federal Expenditures Fund 
$0 
$4,367,605 
$5,121,749 
Revenue 
Federal Expenditures Fund 
$0 
$4,367,605 
$5,121,749 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Projections 
2008-09 
$3,234,029 
$3,234,029 
$5,529,088 
$5,529,088 
Assumes a General Fund appropriation of just over $2.5 million will be required for FY 2006-07 for the state GOsts of 
expanding the number of workers with disabilities covered under the MaineCare program based on the following 
assumptions: approximately 600 additional working disabled will participate at an average total cost (state and 
federal) to the MaineCare program of $1,028 per person per month, and th~t 16% of these additional participants will 
contribute $12 per month toward the costs of their MaineCare benefits. Because the bill does not include an 
emergency preamble, the fiscal note assumes this expansion of eligibility will begin August 1,2006. 
Also assumes a General Fund appropriation of $75,000 will be required for fiscal year 2006-07 for the state costs to be 
incurred by the Bureau of Family Independence in the Department of Health and Human Services to administer this 
change in MaineCare eligibility, including the establishment of 2 positions and the reprogramming costs for the 
Department's automated client eligibility system (ACES). 
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