An Act To Promote Healthy Living in Maine
Maine Legislature, Session 129, LD 0315
Committee Amendment CA_A_H197 (House)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "//" to H.P. 239, L.D. 315, Bill, "An Act To 
Promote Healthy Living in Maine" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'Resolve, To Promote Healthy Living in Maine' 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the title and inserting the following: 
1Sec. 1. 
Evidence-based program to support the State's older adults. 
Resolved: That the Department of Health and Human Services shall establish a 2-year 
program designed to support and improve the health and well-being of the State's older 
adults and reduce health care treatment costs by preventing disease, injury and falls. In 
order to implement this program, the department shall contract with one or more 
community-based organizations that have a demonstrated ability to deliver evidence-
based programs to serve older adults statewide, especially in rural, underserved and 
unserved areas of the State. To be awarded a contract, a community-based organization 
must have: 
1. An established network of program venues and facilitators statewide to enable it to 
provide increased access to programming if it is awarded a contract; 
2. A demonstrated ability to ensure program fidelity and quality in order to achieve 
expected health outcomes; 
3. A demonstrated ability to receive program referrals from the community and health 
care providers; 
4. A demonstrated ability to enroll older adults into its programs by telephonic and 
electronic means; 
5. A demonstrated ability to collect, track and share data; and 
6. A sustainability plan for the conclusion of the contract to ensure the continued 
provision of statewide, evidence-based programs to serve older adults. 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ·A" to H.P. 239, L.D. 315 
To qualify as an evidence-based program under this section, the program must have 
demonstrated through evaluation or experimental or quasi-experimental design its 
effectiveness in improving health outcomes and the well-being of older adults; research 
on the program1s effectiveness must have been published in a peer-reviewed journal; the 
program must be currently used in one or more locations in the community; and 
information about the program must be available to the public. 
Sec. 2. 
Appropriations and allocations. Resolved: 
That the following 
appropriations and allocations are made. 
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF 
Office of Aging and Disability Services Central Office 0140 
Initiative: Appropriates one-time funding to contract for evidence-based programs that 
support and improve the health and well-being of the State1s older adults and reduce 
health care treatment costs by preventing disease, iajury and falls. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
2019-20 
$282,000 
$282,000 
2020-21 
$282,000 
$282,000 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or 
section number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment replaces the bill with a resolve that directs the Department of Health 
and Human Services to establish a 2-year program designed to support and improve the 
health and well-being of the State1s older adults and reduce health care treatment costs by 
preventing disease, injury and falls. 
It directs the department to contract for the 
implementation of this program with one or more community-based organizations that 
have a demonstrated ability to deliver evidence-based programs to serve older adults 
statewide, especially in rural, underserved and unserved areas of the State. 
The 
amendment describes the criteria that a community-based organization must meet in 
order to be awarded a contract. It also changes the appropriations and allocations section 
to indicate that it is one-time funding. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Revised: 04/27/19 feac 
LD315 
LR1600(02) 
An Act To Promote Healthy Living in Maine 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment 4,{ /J--197) 
Committee: Health and Human Services 
Net Cost (Savings) 
General Fund 
Appropriations/ Allocations 
General Fund 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
FY 2019-20 
FY 2020-21 
$282,000 
$282,000 
$282,000 
$282,000 
Projections 
FY2021-22 
$0 
$0 
Projections 
FY2022-23 
$0 
$0 
The bill includes one-time General Fund appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services of 
$282,000 beginning in fiscal year 2019-20 to contract for evidence-based programs that support and improve the 
health and well-being of the State's older adults and reduce health care treatment costs by preventing disease, injury 
and falls. 
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