Resolve, To Increase MaineCare Services for Certain Recipients To Allow Them To Remain at Home
Maine Legislature, Session 127, LD 0475
Committee Amendment CA_B_H609 (House)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ,B,, to H.P. 314, L.D. 475, "Resolve, To Increase 
MaineCare Services for Certain Recipients To Allow Them To Remain at Home" 
Amend the resolve by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'Resolve, To Reduce the Waiting List for Community-based Services for Adults with 
Intellectual Disabilities or Autistic Disorder' 
Amend the resolve by striking out everything after the emergen~y preamble and 
before the emergency clause and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 1. Provide funding for community-based services for adults with 
intellectual disabilities or autistic disorder. 
Resolved: 
That, with an 
appropriation of funding provided in section 2, the Department of Health and Human 
Services shall reduce the waiting list for community-based services provided under 
Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter II, Section 21: Home and Community 
Benefits for Members with Intellectual Disabilities or Autistic Disorder and Chapter III, 
Section 21: Allowances for Home and Community Benefits for Members with 
Intellectual Disabilities or Autistic Disorder; and be it further 
Sec. 2. 
Appropriations and allocations. Resolved: 
That the following 
appropriations and allocations are made. 
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF (FORMERLY BOS) 
Developmental Services Waiver - MaineCare 0987 
Initiative: Provides funding to reduce the waiting list for community-based services 
provided under Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter II, Section 21: Home 
and Community Benefits for Members with Intellectual Disabilities or Autistic Disorder 
and Chapter III, Section 21: Allowances for Home and Community Benefits for Members 
with Intellectual Disabilities or Autistic Disorder. 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT£,, to H.P. 314, L.D. 475 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
Medicaid Services - Developmental Services 0705 
2015-16 
$0 
$0 
2016-17 
$5,000,000 
$5,000,000 
Initiative: Provides funding to reduce the waiting list for community-based services 
provided under Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter II, Section 21: Home 
and Community Benefits for Members with Intellectual Disabilities or Autistic Disorder 
and Chapter III, Section 21: Allowances for Home and Community Benefits for Members 
with Intellectual Disabilities or Autistic Disorder. 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS 
All Other 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL 
Medical Care - Payments to Providers 0147 
2015-16 
$0 
$0 
2016-17 
$998,420 
$998,420 
Initiative: Provides funding to reduce the waiting list for community-based services 
provided under Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter II, Section 21: Home 
and Community Benefits for Members with Intellectual Disabilities or Autistic Disorder 
and Chapter III, Section 21: Allowances for Home and Community Benefits for Members 
with Intellectual Disabilities or Autistic Disorder. 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND 
All Other 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOT AL 
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, 
DEPARTMENT OF (FORMERLY BDS) 
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 
GENERAL FUND 
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS 
DEPARTMENT TOTAL - ALL FUNDS 
2015-16 
$0 
$0 
2016-17 
$10,641,900 
$10,641,900 
2015-16 
2016-17 
$0 
$5,000,000 
$0 
$10,641,900 
$0 
$998,420 
$0 
$16,640,320 
SUMMARY 
This amendment, which is the minority report of the committee, replaces the resolve. 
The resolve increases the combined annual limit for service reimbursement from $23,771 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
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COMMITIEE AMENDMENT~" to H.P. 314, L.D. 475 
to $47,550. Rather than increasing the limits, the amendment adds appropriations and 
allocations of $16,640,320 in all funds to reduce the waiting list for community-based 
services for adults with intellectual disabilities or autistic disorder provided under 
Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter II, Section 21: Home and Community 
Benefits for Members with Intellectual Disabilities or Autistic Disorder and Chapter III, 
Section 21: Allowances for Home and Community Benefits for Members with 
Intellectual Disabilities or Autistic Disorder. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Revised: 03/16/16 
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LD475 
LR 1371(03) 
Resolve, To Increase MaineCare Services for Certain Recipients To Allow Them To Remain at Home 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment 'E 
Committee: Health and Human Services 
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Net Cost (Savings) 
General Fund 
Appropriations/ Allocations 
General Fund 
Federal Expenditures Fund 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
FY 2015-16 
FY 2016-17 
$0 
$5,000,000 
$0 
$5,000,000 
$0 
$10,641,900 
$0 
$998,420 
Projections 
FY 2017-18 
$5,000,000 
$5,000,000 
$10,641,900 
$998,420 
Projections 
FY 2018-19 
$5,000,000 
$5,000,000 
$10,641,900 
$998,420 
The bill includes a General Fund appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Services of$5,000,000 and 
an Other Special Revenue Funds allocation of $998,420 in fiscal year 2016-17 to reduce the waiting list for 
community-based services provided under Section 21: Home and Community Benefits for Members with Intellectual 
Disabilities or Autistic Disorder. Federal Expenditures Fund allocations are also included for the FMAP match. 
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