STATE OF MAINE

123rd LEGISLATURE

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LEGISLATIVE NOTICES

 

JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCIAL AFFAIRS

 

      Sen. Margaret Rotundo, Senate Chair                           Rep. Jeremy Fischer, House Chair

 

      Public Hearing Schedule for the Governor’s Change Package to the Proposed Supplemental Budget State Fiscal Years 2008/2009 (LD 2173)

 

On Wednesday March 12, 2008, The Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs and the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services will be holding public hearings in Room 228 of the State House on the Change Package  to the Governor’s supplemental budget bill for the 2008-2009 biennium LD 2173 "An Act To Make Supplemental Appropriations and Allocations for the Expenditures of State Government and To Change Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2008 and June 30, 2009”.  The committee will hear testimony only on the additions, deletions or changes to the original bill as noted in the change package. 

 

On the morning of March 12th, The Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs will hear testimony related to the Baxter School for the Deaf or any other initiatives that were before the committee on Tuesday March 11th from individuals who will require an ASL interpreter.

 

The proposed change package initiatives may be viewed at:

 

http://www.maine.gov/legis/ofpr/08_09_Supplemental_Budget/budget_materials.htm

 

The audio portions of public hearings and work sessions held in Room 228 of the State House may be monitored over the Internet by addressing:

 

http://janus.state.me.us/legis/audio/approps_cmte.html

 

Due to the very tight timetable, the Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs requests that testimony be limited to three minutes.

 

The Legislature reaffirms its commitment to provide reasonable accommodations to persons with disabilities.  Persons with special needs who wish to attend a Legislative hearing and require accommodations should notify the Legislative Information Office as soon as possible.

 

Telephone: (207) 287-1692

TTY: (207) 287-6826

FAX: (207) 287-1580

 

 

Wednesday March 12, 2008

Beginning at 10:30 a.m.

(Please note the change in start time)

 

 

To be held in conjunction with the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs):

 

 

 

 

 

Education, Department of 

 

 

·         General Purpose Aid for Local Schools (as it relates to the Baxter School for the Deaf)

 

 

 

To be held in conjunction with the applicable committees of jurisdiction):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

·         Testimony on any initiative of the “Change Package” for those who require an ASL Interpreter

 

 

 

 

Please note that the programs listed below are those affected by the Change Package to LD 2173.  Testimony will be heard on any of these topics throughout the hearing.  Please sign in at the committee clerk’s station if you wish to testify.  The order of the testimony will correspond to the order of the sign up sheet.

 

 (To be held in conjunction with the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services):

 

 

Executive Department

 

 

·         Ombudsman Program

 

 

 

 

 

Disability Rights Center

 

 

·         Disability Rights Center

 

 

 

 

 

Administrative and Financial Services, Department of

 

 

·         Joint Purchasing Pool (deleted in Change Package)

 

 

 

 

 

Department of Health and Human Services

 

 

·         Elizabeth Levinson Center

 

 

·         Mental Health Services – Child Medicaid

 

 

·         Mental Health Services – Children

 

 

·         Purchased Social Services

 

 

·         Homeless Youth Program

 

 

·         Maternal and Child Health Block Grant  Match

 

 

 

 

 

·         Medicaid Services – Mental Retardation

 

 

·         Mental Retardation Waiver - MaineCare

 

 

·         Residential Treatment Facilities Assessment

 

 

·         Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center

 

 

·         Mental Health Services – Community

 

 

·         Mental Health Services – Community Medicaid

 

 

·         Department-wide (Outpatient mental health and substance abuse)

 

 

·         Driver Education and Evaluation Program – Substance Abuse

 

 

 

  

·         Consumer  Directed Services

 

  

·         Office of Elder Services Central Office

 

  

 

 

  

·         Charitable Institutions (deletion of FY08 deappropriation in Change Package)

 

  

 

 

  

·         Food Stamps Administration

 

  

·         State Supplement of Federal SSI (deleted in Change Package)

 

  

 

 

  

·         Medical Care – Payments to Providers (Increased Prospective  Interim Payments to Hospitals

 

  

·         Medical Care – Payments to Providers (Childless Adult Waiver co-payments)

 

  

·         Medical Care – Payments to Providers (Funding for Hospital-based Physicians)

 

  

·         Medical Care – Payments to Providers (Enrollment in the childless adult waiver program)

 

  

·         Medical Care – Payments to Providers (payments critical access hospitals – initiative deleted)

 

  

·         Medical Care – Payments to Providers (Katie Beckett)

 

  

·         Medical Care – Payments to Providers (Annual enrollment fee for certain members of the parent expansion group)

 

  

·         Medical Care – Payments to Providers (eliminating pharmacy benefit in the childless adult waiver program)

 

  

·         Medical Care – Payments to Providers (settlement with pharmaceutical manufacturer)

 

  

·         Medical Care – Payments to Providers (consolidating, eliminating and elimination of selected purchases of durable medical equipment)

 

  

·         Medical Care – Payments to Providers (reduces funding for the Katie Beckett Program)

 

  

·         Medical Care – Payments to Providers (eliminative podiatry services from MaineCare)

 

  

·         Medical Care – Payments to Providers (hospice rates)

 

  

·         Medical Care – Payments to Providers (reallocating Fund for a Healthy Maine between programs)

 

  

·         Medical Care – Payments to Providers (funds lost revenue to Targeted Case Management as a result of federal rule changes)

 

  

·         Medical Care – Payments to Providers (removal of RFP requirement for therapeutic foster care)

 

  

·         Medical Care – Payments to Providers (all other , those with corresponding state funding reductions listed elsewhere)

 

 

 

 

 

·         Bureau of Medical Services

 

 

·         Bureau of Health

 

 

·         Maternal and Child Health Block Grant Match

 

 

·         FHM Bureau of Health

 

 

·         FHM - Medical Care

 

 

 

 

 

 Language

 

 

·         Part “N” (Duties and powers of the Commissioner)

 

 

·         Part “Z” (Renames two programs in DHHS)

 

 

·         Part “DDD” (Definitions of Community Support and Day Habilitation Services )

 

 

·         Part  “EEE” (Authorizes transfer of balances Dorothea Dix and Riverview Disproportionate Share General Fund Accounts)

 

 

·         Part “FFF” (Distribution of Savings from Department-wide Reorganization)

 

 

·         Part “JJJ” (Cooperative agreement with the University of Maine System)

 

 

·         Part “III”  (Food assistance to legally-admitted aliens)

 

 

·         Part “NNN” ( Annual enrollment fee for certain MaineCare participants)

 

 

·         Part “UU” (Transition to Fiscal Agent Model)