Resolve, To Provide Funding for a Pilot Project To Evaluate and Address the Transportation Needs of Maine's Veterans
Maine Legislature, Session 128, LD 1886
Committee: Transportation

Legislative Document
No. 1886
H.P. 1318
House of Representatives, March 27, 2018
Resolve, To Provide Funding for a Pilot Project To Evaluate and 
Address the Transportation Needs of Maine's Veterans
Reported by Representative McLEAN of Gorham for the Joint Standing Committee on 
Transportation pursuant to Resolve 2015, chapter 77, section 4.
Reference to the Committee on Transportation suggested and ordered printed pursuant to 
Joint Rule 218.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Sec. 1.  Pilot project.  Resolved: That, beginning September 1, 2018 and ending 
February 28, 2021, the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the 
Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management, shall establish a pilot 
project in Oxford, Franklin and Androscoggin counties to provide transportation to 
veterans, including a veteran's caregiver or dependent, to and from employment or 
employment-related services, medical appointments, mental health services, social 
services and community activities.  The pilot project must be administered by a regional 
transportation agency in a manner that will supplement existing public transit services.  
For purposes of the pilot project, "veteran" means any person who served on active duty 
in the United States Armed Forces or served in the Maine National Guard or the reserve 
components of the United States Armed Forces regardless of discharge and character of 
service and inclusive of active duty for training purposes; and be it further
Sec. 2.  Funding. Resolved: That the Department of Transportation may receive 
funds from any public or private source for the purposes for which the pilot project has 
been established; and be it further
Sec. 3.  Report. Resolved: That by February 1, 2020 the Department of 
Transportation shall submit an initial written report on the progress of the pilot project, 
including number of trips and number of veterans served, and by March 1, 2021 the 
Department of Transportation shall submit a final written report, including findings and 
recommendations, to the joint standing committees of the Legislature having jurisdiction 
over transportation, health and human services, labor and veterans matters.  The joint 
standing committees may each submit a bill to the First Regular Session of the 130th 
Legislature relating to the subject matter of the final report; and be it further
Sec. 4.  Appropriations and allocations.  Resolved:  That the following 
appropriations and allocations are made.
TRANSPORTATION, DEPARTMENT OF
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Initiative:  Provides one-time funding for the implementation of a 30-month pilot project 
in Oxford, Franklin and Androscoggin counties.
SUMMARY
This resolve is reported out by the Joint Standing Committee on Transportation 
pursuant to Resolve 2015, chapter 77, section 4.  As required by the resolve, the 
Department of Transportation submitted to the committee a final written report, including 
findings and recommendations, regarding the development of a pilot project to be 
GENERAL FUND
2017-18
2018-19
All Other
$0
$150,000
GENERAL FUND TOTAL
$0
$150,000
established in a location served by a regional transportation network to provide 
transportation for veterans.
The committee has not taken a position on the substance of this resolve and by 
reporting this resolve out the committee is not suggesting and does not intend to suggest 
that it agrees or disagrees with any aspect of this resolve.  The committee is reporting the 
resolve out for the sole purpose of turning the proposal into a printed resolve that can be 
referred to the committee for an appropriate public hearing and subsequent processing in 
the normal course.  The committee is taking this action to ensure clarity and transparency 
in the legislative review of this proposal.