An Act Regarding the Fund for a Healthy Maine's Prevention, Education and Treatment Activities Concerning Unhealthy Weight and Obesity
Maine Legislature, Session 125, LD 1855
Committee: Health and Human Services
Amends: 22 MRSA §1511

Legislative Document 
No. 1855 
H.P. 1373 
House of Representatives, March 8, 2012 
An Act Regarding the Fund for a Healthy Maine's Prevention, 
Education and Treatment Activities Concerning Unhealthy Weight 
and Obesity 
Reported by Representative STRANG BURGESS of Cumberland for the Joint Standing 
Committee on Health and Human Services pursuant to Joint Order, H.P. 1355. 
Reference to the Committee on Health and Human Services suggested and ordered printed 
pursuant to Joint Rule 218. 
HEATHER J.R. PRIEST 
Clerk 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1.  22 MRSA §1511, sub-§6, as amended by PL 2007, c. 539, Pt. IIII, §3, is 
further amended to read: 
6.  Health promotion purposes.  Allocations are limited to the following health-
related prevention and health promotion purposes: 
A.  Smoking prevention, cessation and control activities, including, but not limited to, 
reducing smoking among the children of the State; 
A-1.  Prevention, education and treatment activities concerning unhealthy weight and 
obesity; 
B.  Prenatal and young children's care including home visits and support for parents 
of children from birth to 6 years of age; 
C.  Child care for children up to 15 years of age, including after-school care; 
D.  Health care for children and adults, maximizing to the extent possible federal 
matching funds; 
E.  Prescription drugs for adults who are elderly or disabled, maximizing to the extent 
possible federal matching funds; 
F.  Dental and oral health care to low-income persons who lack adequate dental 
coverage; 
G.  Substance abuse prevention and treatment; and 
H.  Comprehensive school health and nutrition programs, including school-based 
health centers. 
Sec. 2.  Review and report.  The Commissioner of Administrative and Financial 
Services shall review the program structure for the programs of the Fund for a Healthy 
Maine, as established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 22, section 1511, and 
recommend a new program structure, including a prevention, education and treatment 
program concerning unhealthy weight and obesity, to be used in the state budget 
beginning in fiscal year 2014-15.  The new program structure must include funding for 
prevention, education and treatment activities concerning unhealthy weight and obesity in 
the funding provided from the Fund for a Healthy Maine for these purposes under other 
existing programs. By October 1, 2012, the commissioner shall report on the review and 
recommendations under this section to the Legislature. 
SUMMARY 
This bill proposes changes to the Fund for a Healthy Maine as recommended by the 
Commission To Study Allocations of the Fund for a Healthy Maine established pursuant 
to Resolve 2011, chapter 112.  It adds prevention, education and treatment activities 
concerning unhealthy weight and obesity to the health promotion purposes of the fund.  It 
requires the Commissioner of Administrative and Financial Services to review the 
program structure for the programs of the fund and to recommend a new program 
structure, including a program for prevention, education and treatment activities 
concerning unhealthy weight and obesity, to be used in the state budget beginning in 
fiscal year 2014-15.  It directs the commissioner to report to the Legislature on the review 
and recommendations by October 1, 2012.