An Act to Support At-
Maine Legislature, Session 132, LD 1261
Committee Amendment CA_A_H613 (House)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to H.P. 836, L.D. 1261, "An Act to Support At-
risk Families by Establishing the Community Navigator Pilot Program" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'Resolve, to Establish the Community Navigator Pilot Program to Support At-risk 
Families' 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the title and inserting the following: 
'Sec.1. Community Navigator Pilot Program. Resolved: That the Depattment 
of Health and Human Services, referred to in this resolve as "the department," shall contract 
with 2 child abuse and neglect prevention councils under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 
22, chapter 1057 to establish a 2-year pilot program, the Community Navigator Pilot 
Program, referred to in this resolve as "the pilot program," for 2 community navigators. In 
developing the contracts, the department shall determine which 2 child abuse and neglect 
prevention councils are prepared to patticipate in the pilot program and ensure that one 
child abuse and neglect prevention council is in a northern part of the State and the other is 
in a southern pa1t of the State. The depa1tment shall provide funding for each community 
navigator in the amount of $90,000 per community navigator, per year, for both year one 
and year 2 of the pilot program. The department shall award the contracts no later than 
July 1, 2026, and the pilot program may not last longer than 2 years. The contracts must 
include mechanisms for identifying families in need of services from community 
navigators and for information sharing between community navigators and families. 
Sec. 2. Services provided by community navigators to mandated reporters. 
Resolved: That a community navigator under the pilot program shall engage in outreach 
activities to provide education and guidance to mandated repo1ters, as set f01th in the Maine 
Revised Statutes, Title 22, section 4011-A, subsection 1. Education and guidance include 
improving mandated rep01ters' knowledge of available services and resources for families, 
educating mandated rep01ters on how to refer families to services where those families live 
and providing guidelines for mandated repo1ters to work directly with families rather than 
only reporting suspected child abuse or neglect. 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A "to H.P. 836, L.D. 1261 
Sec. 3. Community navigators to connect and refer screened-out families 
to community services. Resolved: That a community navigator under the pilot 
program shall connect and refer screened-out families to community services. A screened-
out family is a family for which there was a repo1t to the depattment for suspected child 
abuse or neglect but the depattment detennined that the repott of suspected child abuse or 
neglect did not meet the depa1tment's criteria to open a child protective services 
investigation. Community navigators shall connect and refer to community services 
screened-out families that would likely benefit from community services for suppott to 
prevent the need for intervention by child protective services in the future. 
Those 
community services may include, but are not limited to, physical and mental health care, 
housing assistance, food access assistance, fuel assistance, child care, transportation, 
employment training and substance use disorder treatment. 
Sec. 4. 
Appropriations and allocations. Resolved: That the following 
appropriations and allocations are made. 
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF 
IV-E Foster Care/Adoption Assistance 0137 
Initiative: Provides one-time funding for a 2-year pilot program to award contracts to 2 
child abuse and neglect prevention councils in this State for a community navigator position 
within each council. 
GENERAL FUND 
2025-26 
2026-27 
All Other 
$127,800 
$127,800 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
$127,800 
$127,800 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS 
2025-26 
2026-27 
All Other 
$52,200 
$52,000 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL 
$52,200 
$52,000 
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. Like the bill, it establishes a 2-year 
pilot program requiring the Depatiment of Health and Human Services to contract with 
child abuse and neglect prevention councils for community navigators to provide support 
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to families in need and provide guidance to mandated reporters of suspected child abuse or 
neglect. The amendment changes the number of contracts for community navigators in the 
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pilot program from 4 to 2 and requires the Department of Health and Human Services to 
contract with one child abuse and neglect prevention council in the n01them patt of the 
State and one in the southern pmi of the State. The amendment clarifies that the contracts 
between the department and the councils must include mechanisms for identifying families 
in need of community services and for sharing information between community navigators 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 'A" to H.P. 836, L.D. 1261 
and families. It changes the date of the beginning of the pilot program from December 1, 
2025 to July 1, 2026. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
App1;;ved: 06/02/25 LRL 
LD 1261 
LR 1717(02) 
An Act to Support At-risk Families by Establishing the Community Navigator Pilot Program 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment A' { H-? / 3) 
Committee: Health and Human Services 
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Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
FY 2025-26 
$127,800 
FY 2026-27 
$127,800 
Projections 
FY 2027-28 
Projections 
FY 2028-29 
Net Cost (Savings) 
General Fund 
Appropriations/Allocations 
General Fund 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
$127,800 
$52,200 
$127,800 
$52,000 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
The bill includes one-time General Fund appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services of $127,800 
in fiscal year 2025-2026 and $127,800 in fiscal year 2026-27 for a 2-year pilot program that will fond a c01mnunity 
navigator position in 2 child ab~se and neglect councils in the State. Other Special Revenue Funds allocations are also 
included for matching funds. 
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