An Act To Preserve Head Start and Child Care Services
Maine Legislature, Session 126, LD 1682
Committee: Health and Human Services
Sponsors: FREY, LANGLEY, BERRY, FARNSWORTH, FREDETTE, POULIOT, SANBORN, SAUCIER, CRAVEN, TUTTLE

Legislative Document 
No. 1682 
H.P. 1205 
House of Representatives, December 30, 2013 
An Act To Preserve Head Start and Child Care Services 
Approved for introduction by a majority of the Legislative Council pursuant to Joint Rule 
203. 
Reference to the Committee on Health and Human Services suggested and ordered printed. 
MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Presented by Representative FREY of Bangor. 
Cosponsored by Senator LANGLEY of Hancock and 
Representatives: BERRY of Bowdoinham, FARNSWORTH of Portland, FREDETTE of 
Newport, POULIOT of Augusta, SANBORN of Gorham, SAUCIER of Presque Isle, Senators: 
CRAVEN of Androscoggin, TUTTLE of York. 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1.  Recipient of funds.  Funds appropriated in this Act must be distributed 
among the State's federally recognized nontribal Head Start grantees. 
Sec. 2.  Use of funds.  Funds appropriated in this Act must be used to fund services 
for pregnant women and for children from birth to 5 years of age in accordance with the 
federally required community needs assessment performed by each of the State's 
federally recognized nontribal Head Start grantees. 
Sec. 3.  Distribution of General Fund support for Head Start programs.  
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all funds appropriated in fiscal year 2014-15 
for Head Start programs in this Act must be distributed using a base allocation and a 
supplemental allocation as follows. 
1.  The base allocation must be distributed on a per agency basis. The base allocation 
must be divided into 13 equal shares. Each of the State's 11 nontribal Head Start 
programs must receive a single share, with the exception of the Penquis Community 
Action Program, Inc. and the Community Concepts, Inc. Head Start agencies, which each 
receive 2 shares of the base allocation. 
2.  The supplemental allocation must be distributed among the 11 nontribal Head 
Start programs in proportion to the number of children from birth to 5 years of age in 
poverty in their respective service areas in relation to the number of children from birth to 
years of age in poverty statewide. 
3.  The base allocation is set at $1,740,000. The supplemental allocation is that 
amount of General Fund support that exceeds the base allocation. 
Sec. 4.  Appropriations and allocations.  The following appropriations and 
allocations are made. 
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF (FORMERLY DHS) 
Head Start 0545 
Initiative: Appropriates funds to restore the reduction to Head Start program funds made 
in fiscal year 2012-13.  These funds will allow the State to maximize child care 
development fund block grants to provide child care vouchers. 
GENERAL FUND 
2013-14
2014-15
All Other 
$0
$2,000,000
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
$0
$2,000,000
SUMMARY 
This bill provides for the allocation of funding among Maine's 11 nontribal Head 
Start programs based on a formula that provides a base allocation to each program and 
distributes all remaining funding based on the number of children in poverty in each 
program's service area.  The bill also provides a $2,000,000 appropriation to state Head 
Start programs in fiscal year 2014-15, fully replacing the cut that was made in fiscal year 
2012-13. These funds will allow the State to maximize child care development fund block 
grants to provide child care vouchers.