An Act to Establish the Winter Energy Relief Payment Program to Aid Residents with High Heating Costs and to Finalize the COVID Pandemic Relief Payment Program
Maine Legislature, Session 131, LD 0003
Committee Amendment CA_A_H1 (House)

COMMITTEE AME~MENT "If" to H.P. 5, L.D. 3, "An Act to Establish the 
Winter Energy Relief Payment Program to Aid Residents with High Heating Costs and to 
Finalize the COVID Pandemic Relief Payment Program" 
Amend the bill by incorporating the attached fiscal note. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment incorporates a fiscal note. 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 12/22/22 fe.ae 
LD3 
LR 601(02) 
An Act to Establish the Winter Energy Relief Payment Program to Aid Residents with High Heating 
Costs and to Finalize the COVID Pandemic Relief Payment Program 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment /f,(}/-/) 
Committee: Appropriations and Financial Affairs 
Net Cost (Savings) 
General Fund 
Fund for a Healthy Maine 
Appropriations/ Allocations 
General Fund 
Federal Expenditures Fund 
Fund for a Healthy Maine 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
Federal Block Grant Fund 
Transfers 
General Fund 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
FY2022-23 
$316,680,851 
($4,154,555) 
($156,752·,586) 
$158,965,759 
($4,154,555) 
$480,494,184 
$1,941,382 -
($473,433,437) 
$473,433,437 
FY 2023-24 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$500 
$0 
$0 
$0 
FY 2024-25 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
Projections 
FY2025-26 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
Projections 
FY 2026-27 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
Part A transfers- funds totaling $71. 0 million from the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund to the Maine State 
Housing Authority no later than June 30, 2023. Of this amount, $50.0 million is allocated for heating assistance to 
both Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) eligible and non-HEAP eligible households in the St!lte and $21.0 
million is allocated for emergency housing and emergency shelters to prevent people from experiencing homelessness 
during the 2022-2023 winter months. 
Pait B establishes the Winter Energy Relief Payment Program and transfers funds on a one-time basis totaling $398.0 
million from the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund to the newly created Winter Energy Relief Payment 
Program, Other Special Revenue Funds account no later than December 31, 2022 to fund the program. 
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Part C transfers $4,433,437 from the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund to the COVID Pandemic Relief 
Payment Program no later than June 30, 2023. Part C also transfers $385,754 from the COVID Disaster Relief 
Payment, Other Special Revenue Funds account and $6,674,993 from the Homestead Property Tax Exemption 
Reimbursement, Other Special Revenue Funds account to the COVID Pandemic Relief Payment Program. Part C 
provides the COVID Pandemic Relief Payment Program with an Other Special Revenue Funds allocation of 
$11 ;494, 184 in fiscal year 2022-23 to complete the $850 disaster relief payment to each eligible resident of the State 
as authorized in Public Law 2021, chapter 635, Part L. 
Part D includes General Fund deappropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services of $156,752,586 in 
fiscal year 2022-23 to adjust funding for the 6.2% increase in the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage rate based on 
the extension of the national public health emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This adjustment also 
deallocates $4,154,555 from the Fund for a Healthy Maine in fiscal year 2022-23. The offset for these 
deappropriations and deallocations are Federal Expenditures Fund allocations of $158,965,759 and Federal Block 
Grant Fund allocations of $1,941,382 in fiscal year 2022-23. 
Any additional costs to the Department of Environmental Protection and the Office of Treasurer of State as a result of 
the provisions of this bill are anticipated to be minor and can be absorbed within existing budgeted resources. 
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