An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Streamline and Prioritize Core Government Services Task Force for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2012 and June 30, 2013 and To Make Certain Other Allocations and Appropriations and Changes to the Law Necessary to the Operation of State Government
Maine Legislature, Session 125, LD 1816
House Amendment HA_F_H709 (House)
Amends: 36 MRSA §5117

HOUSE AMENDMENT" P" to H.P. 1339, L.D. 1816, Bill, "An Act To Implement 
the Recommendations of the Streamline and Prioritize Core Government Services Task 
Force for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2012 and June 30, 2013 and To Make Certain 
Other Allocations and Appropriations and Changes to the Law Necessary to the 
Operation of State Government" 
Amend the bill by striking out all of Parts I, 0 and X. 
Amend the bill in Part Z by striking out all of section 1. 
Amend the bill by striking out all of Parts AA, BB and CC. 
Amend the bill by striking out all of Part II and inserting the following: 
'PART II 
Sec. 11-1. PL 2011, c. 380, Pt. JJJ, §1 is amended to read: 
Sec. JJJ-1. 
Transfer from 
Other Special Revenue Funds to 
unappropriated surplus of the General Fund. Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, the State Controller shall transfer $43,000,000 $104,400,000 on June 30, 2012 
from Other Special Revenue Funds to the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund. On 
July 1, 2012, the State Controller shall transfer $43,000,000 $104,400,000 from the 
General Fund unappropriated surplus to Other Special Revenue Funds as repayment. This 
transfer is considered an interfund advance. 
PARTJJ 
Sec. JJ-1. 36 MRSA §5117 is enacted to read: 
§S117. Equalization oftax rates 
The State Tax Assessor shall calculate annually the average effective tax rate on all 
state and local taxes paid by the top 1 % of income earners and the bottom 99% of income 
earners based on the most recent tax incidence study completed by the bureau. The State 
Tax Assessor shall calculate an income tax amount for each taxpayer that equalizes this 
tax rate on the top 1 % of income earners and the bottom 99% of income earners. This 
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income tax equalization amount may be equal to but not less than zero. This income tax 
equalization amount is imposed for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 
2012. The State Tax Assessor may adopt rules, which are routine technical rules pursuant 
to Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A, to implement this section. 
Sec. JJ-2. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and 
allocations are made. 
ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF 
Revenue Services - Bureau of 0002 
Initiative: Provides funding for costs incurred to produce and print new tax forms and 
programming costs. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
PARTKK 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
2012-13 
$250,000 
$250,000 
Sec. KK-l. 
Transfer from unappropriated surplus; Maine Budget 
Stabilization Fund. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Controller 
shall transfer $15,000,000 during fiscal year 2012-13 from the General Fund 
unappropriated surplus to the Maine Budget Stabilization Fund within the Department of 
Administrative and Financial Services. 
PARTLL 
Sec. LL-l. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and 
allocations are made. 
EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF 
Child Development Services 0449 
Initiative: Restores funding reduced in this Act from savings from elimination of the 
"parent choice" portion of the program. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
HOUSE AMENDMENT 
2012-13 
$850,000 
$850,000 
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EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF 
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 
GENERAL FUND 
DEPARTMENT TOTAL-ALL FUNDS 
2011-12 
2012-13 
$0 
$850,000 
$0 
$850,000 
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF (FORMERLY BDS) 
Developmental Services - Community 0122 
Initiative: Restores funding reduced in this Act for reducing reimbursement in rental 
assistance to United States Department of Housing and Urban Development levels. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
Developmental Services Waiver - MaineCare 0987 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
2012-13 
$1,200,000 
$1,200,000 
Initiative: Restores funding reduced in this Act from a 5% reduction in rates paid to 
agency per diem homes. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, 
DEPARTMENT OF (FORMERLY BDS) 
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 
GENERAL FUND 
DEPARTMENT TOTAL - ALL FUNDS 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
2012-13 
$3,654,635 
$3,654,635 
2012-13 
$4,854,635 
$4,854,635 
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF (FORMERLY DHS) 
Medical Care - Payments to Providers 0147 
Initiative: Restores funding reduced in this Act from mandating the use of generic drugs 
to the extent allowed by federa11aw, with limited exceptions. 
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GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND 
All Other 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOTAL 
Medical Care - Payments to Providers 0147 
2011-12 
$1,168,120 
$1,168,120 
2011-12 
$2,023,465 
$2,023,465 
2012-13 
$5,840,598 
$5,840,598 
2012-13 
$9,838,860 
$9,838,860 
Initiative: Restores funding reduced in this Act by lowering methadone reimbursement 
from $70 per week to $60 per week. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND 
All Other 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOTAL 
Medical Care - Payments to Providers 0147 
2011-12 
$87,490 
$87,490 
2011-12 
$150,708 
$150,708 
2012-13 
$474,902 
$474,902 
2012-13 
$818,052 
$818,052 
Initiative: Restores funding reduced in this Act by limiting access to buprenorphine and 
naloxone combination drugs for MaineCare recipients, effective January 1,2013, to a 2-
year period, to be applied retroactively. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND 
All Other 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOTAL 
Medical Care - Payments to Providers 0147 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
HOUSE AMENDMENT 
2012-13 
$600,000 
$600,000 
2012-13 
$1,033,542 
$1,033,542 
HOUSE AMENDMENT" r-" to H.P. 1339, L.D. 1816 
Initiative: Restores funding reduced in this Act due to limitations placed on MaineCare 
reimbursement for opioids. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND 
All Other 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOTAL 
Medical Care - Payments to Providers 0147 
2011-12 
($90,000) 
($90,000) 
2011-12 
($115,031) 
($115,031) 
2012-13 
$660,000 
$660,000 
2012-13 
$1,136,896 
$1,136,896 
Initiative: Restores funding reduced in this Act for the 5% reduction in rates paid to 
agency per diem homes. 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND 
All Other 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOTAL 
Medical Care - Payments to Providers 0147 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
2012-13 
$6,295,365 
$6,295,365 
Initiative: Restores funding reduced in this Act from freezing new enrollment and waiver 
benefit redesign in the MaineCare childless adult waiver program. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND 
All Other 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOTAL 
Medical Care - Payments to Providers 0147 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
2012-13 
$11,000,000 
$11,000,000 
2012-13 
$18,948,271 
$18,948,271 
Initiative: Restores funding reduced in this Act as a result of a one-time transfer from the 
Dirigo Health Fund to the Medical Care - Payments to Providers program as a result of 
reducing eligibility for Medicaid services for parents with a maximum income of 200% to 
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a maximum income of 133% of the nonfarm income official poverty line effective 
September 1, 2012. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND 
All Other 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOTAL 
Medical Care - Payments to Providers 0147 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
2012-13 
$7,210,000 
$7,210,000 
2012-13 
$12,421,096 
$12,421,096 
Initiative: Restores funding reduced in this Act for outpatient services at acute care 
hospitals. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND 
All Other 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOTAL 
Medical Care - Payments to Providers 0147 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
2012-13 
$3,180,269 
$3,180,269 
2012-13 
$5,478,236 
$5,478,236 
Initiative: Restores funding reduced in this Act from reducing reimbursement for critical 
access hospitals from 109% to 105%. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
2011-12 
$290,834 
$290,834 
HOUSE AMENDMENT 
2012-13 
$1,179,804 
$1,179,804 
HOUSE AMENDMENT" V, to H.P. 1339, L.D. 1816 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND 
All Other 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOTAL 
Medical Care - Payments to Providers 0147 
2011-12 
$503,794 
$503,794 
2012-13 
$1,987,455 
$1,987,455 
Initiative: Restores funding reduced in this Act from limiting reimbursement for hospital 
admissions to 5 per member per year. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND 
All Other 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOTAL 
Medical Care - Payments to Providers 0147 
2011-12 
$91,890 
$91,890 
2011-12 
$159,176 
$159,176 
2012-13 
$490,081 
$490,081 
2012-13 
$825,573 
$825,573 
Initiative: Restores funding reduced in this Act from reducing funding for outpatient 
services at acute care hospitals by 5%, effective July 1, 2012. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND 
All Other 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOTAL 
Medical Care - Payments to Providers 0147 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
2012-13 
$3,180,269 
$3,180,269 
2012-13 
$5,357,366 
$5,357,366 
Initiative: Restores funding reduced in this Act from reducing reimbursement for hospital 
inpatient services by 10%. 
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GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND 
All Other 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOTAL 
State-funded Foster Care/Adoption Assistance 0139 
2011-12 
$768,208 
$768,208 
2011-12 
$2,098,929 
$2,098,929 
2012-13 
$3,127,406 
$3,127,406 
2012-13 
$5,268,314 
$5,268,314 
Initiative: Restores funding reduced in this Act from reducing funding for supplemental 
services for children with complex emotional and behavioral needs. 
GENERAL FUND 
Personal Services 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
State-funded Foster Care/Adoption Assistance 0139 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
$0 
2012-13 
$44,286 
$2,142,400 
$2,186,686 
Initiative: Restores funding reduced in this Act from eliminating funding for 
supplemental services for children with complex emotional and behavioral needs. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
State-funded Foster Care/Adoption Assistance 0139 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
2012-13 
$1,999,984 
$1,999,984 
Initiative: Restores funding reduced in this Act from reducing contracts in the alternative 
response program. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
2011-12 
$0 
$0 
HOUSE AMENDMENT 
2012-13 
$1,290,000 
$1,290,000 
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HEAL TH AND HUMAN SERVICES, 
DEPARTMENT OF (FORMERLY DBS) 
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 
GENERAL FUND 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND 
DEPARTMENT TOTAL-ALL FUNDS 
SECTION TOTALS 
GENERAL FUND 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND 
SECTION TOTAL - ALL FUNDS 
2011-12 
$2,316,542 
$4,821,041 
2012-13 
$42,419,999 
$69,409,026 
$7,137,583 $111,829,025 
2011-12 
$2,316,542 
$4,821,041 
2012-13 
$48,124,634 
$69,409,026 
$7,137,583 $117,533,660 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or 
section number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment restores funding for MaineCare and other services that were reduced 
in the bill by requiring that the wealthiest 1 % of Maine residents pay at least the same 
average state and local tax rate as all other Maine residents. 
It increases the 
intergovernmental transfer from $102,000,000 to $104,400,000 and makes a transfer of 
$15,000,000 from the General Fund unappropriated surplus to the Maine Budget 
Stabilization Fund within the Department of Administrative and Financial Services. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
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(Representative BERRY) 
TOWN: Bowdoinham 
HOUSE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 02/16/12 
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LD 1816 
LR 2701(16) 
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Streamline and Prioritize Core Government 
Services Task Force for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2012 and June 30, 2013 and To Make 
Certain Other Allocations and Appropriations and Changes to the Law Necessary to the Operation of 
State Government 
Fiscal Note for House Amendment" Y" 
Sponsor: Rep. Berry of Bowdoinham 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Net Cost (Savings) 
General Fund 
Appropriations/Allocations 
General Fund 
Federal Expenditures Fund 
Revenue 
General Fund 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
Transfers 
General Fund 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
Dirigo Health Fund 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Fiscal Note 
FY 2011-12 
($83,458) 
$2,316,542 
$4,821,041 
$0 
$0 
$2,400,000 
($2,400,000) 
$0 
FY 2012-13 
Projections 
FY 2013-14 
Projections 
FY 2014-15 
($875,366) 
($33,644,035) 
($44,260,922) 
$48,374,634 
$69,409,026 
$66,650,000 
$3,500,000 
($17,400,000) 
($4,810,000) 
$7,210,000 
$35,515,965 
$47,513,795 
$69,160,000 
$3,640,000 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$27,665,478 
$38,039,659 
$71,926,400 
$3,785,600 
$0 
$0 
$0 
This amendment reduces the General Fund cost of the bill by $83,458 in fiscal year 2011-12 and $875,366 in fiscal 
year 2012-13. The amendment implements an income tax equalization assessment to generate additional General 
Fund revenue that provides the resources to restore funding for a number of MaineCare and other programs that are 
proposed for reductions in the bill. The amendment also increases the one-day borrowing from Other Special Revenue 
Funds by $2,400,000 and transfers $15,000,000 from General Fund unappropriated surplus to the Maine Budget 
Stabilization Fund in fiscal year 2012-13. 
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