Resolve, To Promote Efficiency and To Streamline Access to the Circuitbreaker Program Application Process
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 1514
Committee: Taxation
Sponsors: CROCKETT, BLISS, BRYANT, CHASE, FLEMINGS, PILON, PINGREE, WATSON, NASS, PERRY

Legislative Document 
No. 1514 
H.P. 1063 
House of Representatives, December 10,2009 
Resolve, To Promote Efficiency and To Streamline Access to the 
Circuitbreaker Program Application Process 
Approved for introduction by a majority of the Legislative Council pursuant to Joint Rule 
203. 
Received by the Clerk of the House on December 8, 2009. Referred to the Committee on 
Taxation pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to Joint Rule 401. 
Presented by Representative CROCKETT of Augusta. 
Cosponsored by Senator BLISS of Cumberland and 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Representatives: BRYANT of Windham, CHASE of Wells, FLEMINGS of Bar Harbor, 
PILON of Sa co, Speaker PINGREE of North Haven, WATSON of Bath, Senators: NASS of 
York, PERRY of Penobscot. 
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Sec. 1. 
Examine efficiencies. 
Resolved: 
That the Department of 
Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Revenue Services and the Department 
of Health and Human Services, office of integrated access and support shall jointly 
examine the potential for gaining administrative efficiencies and reducing the burden on 
applicants applying for the Maine Residents Property Tax Program, also known as the 
Circuitbreaker Program. 
The bureau and the office shall determine whether 
improvements are possible through use of the Department of Health and Human Services' 
Automated Client Eligibility System, which currently collects and maintains verified 
eligibility information for low-income persons for a variety of public programs, and 
whether the system could be used to determine eligibility for the Circuitbreaker Program, 
eliminating the redundant application and verification efforts currently undertaken by the 
agencies with regard to common clients and saving administrative resources by 
providing a simpler "one-stop-shopping" application process for claimants; and be it 
further 
Sec. 2. Report; legislation. Resolved: That the bureau and the office shall 
jointly report their findings under section 1, including any costs associated with 
combining the application processes, to the joint standing committee of the Legislature 
having jurisdiction over taxation matters by January 15, 2011. The committee may 
submit legislation related to the report to the First Regular Session of the 125th 
Legislature. 
SUMMARY 
This resolve directs the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau 
of Revenue Services and the Department of Health and Human Services, office of 
integrated access and support to examine opportunities for using the Department of 
Health and Human Services' Automated Client Eligibility System to determine eligibility 
for the Maine Residents Property Tax: Program. The bureau and the office are directed to 
submit a report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over 
taxation matters by January 15, 2011. The committee may submit legislation related to 
the report. 
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