Resolve, To Expand Recovery Community Organizations throughout Maine
Maine Legislature, Session 130, LD 0488
Committee: Health and Human Services
Sponsors: MAXMIN, FECTEAU, EVANS, LANDRY, MEYER, O'NEIL, POIRIER

Legislative Document
No. 488
S.P. 195
In Senate, February 19, 2021
Resolve, To Expand Recovery Community Organizations 
throughout Maine
Received by the Secretary of the Senate on February 17, 2021.  Referred to the Committee 
on Health and Human Services pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator MAXMIN of Lincoln.
Cosponsored by Speaker FECTEAU of Biddeford and
Representatives: EVANS of Dover-Foxcroft, LANDRY of Farmington, McDONALD of 
Stonington, MEYER of Eliot, O'NEIL of Saco, POIRIER of Skowhegan.
Sec. 1.  Department of Health and Human Services to provide funds to 
recovery community centers.  Resolved:  That the Department of Health and Human 
Services shall provide grant funds in an expedited manner, beginning within 60 days after 
the effective date of this legislation, in the amount of $1,000,000, to recovery community 
centers located in Franklin, Hancock, Kennebec, Piscataquis, Somerset, Waldo and York 
counties serving individuals with substance use disorder.  For purposes of this section, a 
"recovery community center" means a peer-operated organization whose primary purpose 
is to provide the community-based connections necessary for a person to enter and sustain 
recovery from substance use disorder by serving as a source of information on recovery, 
making referrals to local resources and providing or referring an individual to mutual-help 
or peer-support organization meetings or social activities.
Sec. 2.  Report.  Resolved: That the Commissioner of Health and Human Services 
shall appear periodically before the joint standing committee of the Legislature having 
jurisdiction over health and human services matters to report on the implementation of this 
legislation.
Sec. 3.  Funds may not be transferred.  Resolved: That, notwithstanding the 
Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section 1585 or any other provision of law to the contrary, 
funding provided in this legislation may not be transferred to any other appropriation or 
program of an appropriation made by the Legislature.
Sec. 4.  Funds may not lapse.  Resolved; That, notwithstanding the Maine Revised 
Statutes, Title 5, section 1589 or any other provision of law to the contrary, any 
unencumbered balance of appropriations contained in this legislation remaining at the end 
of each fiscal year may not lapse but must be carried forward to be used for the same 
purposes.
Sec. 5.  Request for proposals.  Resolved: That the Department of Health and 
Human Services shall provide grant funds using the competitive request for proposal 
bidding process set forth in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, chapter 155. The 
department shall issue a request for proposals no later than October 1, 2021 to award annual 
grant funds beginning no later than 60 days after the effective date of this legislation.
Sec. 6.  Appropriations and allocations.  Resolved:  That the following 
appropriations and allocations are made.
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF
Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 0679
Initiative:  Provides expedited grant funding for the 2021-22 and 2022-23 fiscal years 
through a competitive request for proposal process to recovery community centers located 
in Franklin, Hancock, Kennebec, Piscataquis, Somerset, Waldo and York counties serving 
individuals with substance use disorder.
GENERAL FUND
2020-21
2022-23
All Other
$500,000
$500,000
__________
__________
GENERAL FUND TOTAL
$500,000
$500,000
SUMMARY
This resolve provides expedited funding in the amount of $1,000,000 total for the 2021-
and 2022-23 fiscal years through a competitive request for proposal process to recovery 
community centers located in Franklin, Hancock, Kennebec, Piscataquis, Somerset, Waldo 
and York counties serving individuals with substance use disorder.