An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Governor's Interagency Transportation Coordinating Committee
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 0967
Sponsors: PEOPLES, GOOLEY, BROWNE, HARLOW, HOGAN, MAZUREK, ROSEN, THERIAULT, PERRY
Amends: 23 MRSA §4209

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124th MAINE: LEGISLATURE 
Legislative Document 
No. 967 
H.P.669 
House of Representatives, March 10,2009 
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Governor's 
Interagency Transportation Coordinating Committee 
Submitted by the Department of Transportation pursuant to Joint Rule 204. 
Reference to the Conm1ittee on Transportation suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative PEOPLES of Westbrook. 
Cosponsored by Senator GOOLEY of Franklin and 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Representatives: BROWNE of Vassalboro, HARLOW of Portland, HOGAN of Old Orchard 
Beach, MAZUREK of Rockland, ROSEN of Bucksport, THERIAULT of Madawaska, 
Senator: PERRY of Penobscot. 
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 23 MRS A §4209, sub-§l, as corrected by RR 2003, c. 2, §83, is amended 
to read: 
1. Geographic regions. The Department of Transp0I1ation shall divide the State 
into a number of geographic regions for regional distribution of state-administered 
transportation funds. Upon designation of the geographic regions, a regional public 
transp0I1ation agency must be selected from each region to formulate a biennial regional 
operations plan. 
Selection of regional public transportation agencies must be by the 
Department of Transportation with the consent of the Department of Health and Human 
Services in collaboration with the committee established in subsection I-A. 
The 
Department of Transportation shall establish a schedule for submittal of the biennial 
regional operations plan and shall reference these plans in its biennial transportation 
improvement plan submitted to the Legislature. 
Sec. 2. 23 MRS A §4209, sub-§l-A is enacted to read: 
. I-A. 
Interagency Transportation Coordinating Committee. 
The Interagency 
Transportation Coordinating Committee, referred to in this section as "the committee," is 
established to promote efficiency, cooperative effort and strategic planning for public 
transportation between the Department of Transp0I1ation, the Department of Labor and 
the Department of Health and Human Services. 
A. 
The committee consists of the Commissioner of Transportation, the 
Commissioner of Labor and the Commissioner of Health and Human Services or the 
designees of the commissioners. 
B. The committee shall meet at least twice each year. 
C. The Commissioner of Transportation shall designate the chair of the committee. 
D. The committee shall designate a catchment area for MaineCare transp0I1ation 
providers. 
E. 
The committee shall submit a report on its deliberations and any 
recommendations by February 15th each year to the Governor and the joint standing 
committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over public transportation matters. 
Sec. 3. 23 MRS A §4209, sub-§2, as corrected by RR 2003, c. 2, §83, is amended 
to read: 
2. 
Biennial regional operations plan. The biennial regional operations plan 
submitted by each regional public transportation agency must provide for the following: 
A. 
Maximum feasible coordination of funds among all state agencies that sponsor 
transportation in the region; 
B. 
Development and maintenance of a permanent and effective public 
transportation system, with paJ1icular regard to riders who are low-income, or elderly 
and handicaooed residents or who have disabilities; 
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C. 
PaIiicipation of private transit operators in the service, to the greatest extent 
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Conformity with general operations requirements as may be prescribed by the 
commissioner;; and 
E. Compliance with any appropriate federal regulations, including but not limited to 
the federally required locally coordinated plan. 
In years in which no biennial plan is required, amendments to the effective operations 
may be submitted. Approval of each regional operations plan must be by the Department 
of Transportation with the consent of the Department of Health and Human Services in 
collaboration with the committee. Upon approval, all agencies, groups or organizations 
named to paliicipate in the provision of service in accordance with a regional operations 
plan are eligible to receive funds administered by the Department of Transportation and 
the Department of Health and Human Services. 
Sec. 4. 23 MRSA §4209, sub-§4, as corrected by RR 2003, c. 2, §84, is amended 
to read: 
4. Human services assistance; priorities. A liaison appointed by the Depaltment of 
Health and Human Services The committee shall act to coordinate purchase of service 
contracts and serve in an advisory capacity to the department in matters concerning 
public transportation. In the event that transportation funds for human services' services 
programs are insufficient for full implementation of the human services' services portion 
of an approved biennial regional operations plan, priorities established by the Department 
of Health and Human Services determine the priority clients that must be initially served 
by human services' services funds. The Department of Health and Human Services and 
its agents Members of the committee and their contractors shall actively engage local 
transportation providers in the planning of new services that are expected to have a 
transportation component. 
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Labor shall ensure 
that any new service to be provided is adequately funded to cover the costs of the 
transportation component of the program. 
SUMMARY 
This bill establishes in statute the Interagency Transportation Coordinating 
Committee, which provides oversight and promotes efficiency, cooperative effort and 
strategic planning for public transportation between the Department of Transportation, 
the Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services.