An Act To Fund the State's Free Health Clinics
Maine Legislature, Session 130, LD 0047
Committee Amendment CA_A_H50 (House)

CO:MMITTEEAMEND:rvtENT"A "toH.P.13,L.D.47, "AnActToFundtheState's 
Free Health Clinics" 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and inserting the 
following: 
'Sec.1. Department of Health and Human Services to provide grants to the 
State's free health clinics. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the 
Department of Health and Human Services shall provide the funds appropriated in section 
to the State's free health clinics by establishing a grant process in order to distribute the 
funds as quickly as possible. In issuing the grants, the department shall develop the criteria 
to be met by a free health clinic, including, but not limited to, the population that would be 
able to be served with grant funding. As a condition of receiving grant funding, a free 
health clinic must, no later than December 15, 2021, report to the department information 
about how the grant funding would be used by the clinic. 
Sec. 2. Report from the Department of Health and Human Services on 
funding of the State's free health clinics. The Commissioner of Health and Human 
Services shall report to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services no 
later than January 15, 2022 with information on which clinics were awarded funds under 
this Act, how much each clinic received and how the grant funding was used by the clinics. 
Following receipt of the rep01t, the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human 
Services may submit legislation relating to the report to the Second Regular Session of the 
130th Legislature. 
Sec. 3. 
Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and 
allocations are made. 
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF 
Purchased Social Services 0228 
Initiative: Provides one-time grant funding for the State's free health clinics. 
GENERAL FUND 
2021-22 
2022-23 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" A 
"to H.P. 13, L.D. 47 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
$250,000 
$250,000 
$250,000 
$250,000 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section 
number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment, which is the majority report of the committee, clarifies that the 
Department of Health and Human Services is required to provide the funding to the State's 
free health clinics through a grant process. It provides that, as a condition of receiving 
grant funding, a free health clinic must, no later than December 15, 2021, report to the 
Department of Health and Human Services information about how the grant funding would 
be used by the clinic. It also provides that the Commissioner of Health and Human Services 
is required to report to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services no 
later than January 15, 2022 with information on which clinics were awarded funds, how 
much each clinic received and how the grant funding was used by the clinics. The Joint 
Standing Committee on Health and Human Services is authorized to submit legislation 
relating to the report to the Second Regular Session of the 130th Legislature. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 03/12/21 :Wac:. 
LD47 
LR 269(02) 
An Act To Fund the State's Free Health Clinics 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment 1:4' 1 (H - 5'6) 
Committee: Health and Human Services 
Net Cost (Savings) 
General Fund 
... ppropriations/ Allocations 
General Fund 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
FY 2021-22 
$250,000 
$250,000 
FY 2022-23 
$250,000 
$250,000 
Projections 
FY2023-24 
$0 
$0 
Projections 
FY2024-25 
$0 
$0 
The bill includes General Fund appropriations to the Depaitment of Health and Human Services of $250,000 in fiscal 
year 2021-22 and $250,000 in fiscal year 2022-23 for one-time grant funding for the State's free health clinics. 
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