An Act To Create a County Jail Drug Rehabilitation and Treatment Grant Program
Maine Legislature, Session 128, LD 0377
Committee Amendment CA_A_S112 (Senate)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT"~" to S.P. 118, L.D. 377, Bill, "An Act To Create 
a County Jail Drug Rehabilitation and Treatment Grant Program" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'Resolve, To Establish the York County Jail Drug Detoxification and Rehabilitation 
Pilot Program' 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the title and before the summary and 
inserting the following: 
'Sec. 1. York County Jail Drug Detoxification and Rehabilitation Pilot 
Program. 
Resolved: 
That the York County Jail Drug Detoxification and 
Rehabilitation Pilot Program, referred to in this section as "the pilot program," is 
established to provide state funding for the creation of drug detoxification and 
rehabilitation programs in therapeutic communities within the York County Jail or in 
facilities attached to or affiliated with the York County Jail. The pilot program must 
provide treatment services to inmates with substance use disorders in a facility or 
program that may be residential and that may also provide outpatient and 
community-based services. The pilot program must provide services to inmates of the 
York County Jail and may provide services to inmates :from other counties as agreed 
between the York County Sheriff and sheriffs from other counties in this State. 
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, funds appropriated to the pilot 
program that are remaining at the end of a state fiscal year do not lapse but are carried 
forward into the next fiscal year. The pilot program terminates upon the expenditure of 
all funds appropriated to the pilot program; and be it further 
Sec. 2. 
Appropriations and allocations. 
Resolved: 
That the following 
appropriations and allocations are made. 
CORRECTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF 
County Jail Operations Fund Z227 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to S.P. 118, L.D. 377 
Initiative: Provides one-time funds for the York County Jail Drug Detoxification and 
Rehabilitation Pilot Program to provide drug detoxification and rehabilitation programs in 
therapeutic communities within the York County Jail or in facilities attached to or 
affiliated with the jail, providing services to inmates with substance use disorders. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
SUMMARY 
2017-18 
$975,000 
$975,000 
2018-19 
$975,000 
$975,000 
This amendment is the majority report of the committee. The amendment changes 
the title and replaces the bill with a resolve that establishes the York County Jail Drug 
Detoxification and Rehabilitation Pilot Program to provide one-time state funding for the 
creation of drug detoxification and rehabilitation programs in therapeutic communities 
within the York County Jail or in facilities attached to or affiliated with the jail. The pilot 
program is required to provide services to inmates of the York County Jail and may 
provide services to inmates from other counties as agreed between the York County 
Sheriff and the sheriffs of other counties in this State. The amendment provides funding 
from the General Fund of $975,000 per year for state fiscal years 2017-18 and 2018-19. 
The funding does not lapse but carries forward from year to year. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 05/03/17 feac: 
LD377 
LR 883(02) 
An Act To Create a County Jail Drug Rehabilitation and Treatment Grant Program 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment 'A" ( S - \ \i;) 
Committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
FY 2017-18 
FY 2018-19 
Projections 
FY 2019-20 
Projections 
FY 2020-21 
Net Cost (Savings) 
General Fund 
Appropriations/ Allocations 
General Fund 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
$975,000 
$975,000 
$975,000 
$0 
$0 
$975,000 
$0 
$0 
This bill includes General Fund appropriations of $975,000 in fiscal year 2017-18 and fiscal year 2018-19 only for the 
Department of Corrections to fund the York County Jail Detoxification and Rehabilitation Pilot Program. 
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