LD 763

132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
  FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document  No. 763
S.P. 322  In Senate, February 25, 2025
  An Act to Improve Long-term Care by Providing Funding for
  Nursing Facilities
   Reference to the Committee on Health and Human Services suggested and ordered printed.
  DAREK M. GRANT
  Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator GROHOSKI of Hancock.
  Printed on recycled paper
1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2     Sec. 1. Transfer from General Fund unappropriated surplus; Department
3 of Health and Human Services, Nursing Facilities. Notwithstanding any provision
4 of law to the contrary, as soon as practicable, the State Controller shall transfer $50,000,000
5 from the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund to the Department of Health and
6 Human Services, Nursing Facilities program, Nursing Facility Reform Transition Fund
7 Other Special Revenue Funds account for the purpose of funding components of nursing
8 facility rates.
9     Sec. 2. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and
10 allocations are made.
11 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF
12 Nursing Facilities 0148
13 Initiative: Provides one-time funding in the Nursing Facility Reform Transition Fund Other
14 Special Revenue Funds account to fund components of nursing facility rates.
15 OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS  2025-26  2026-27
16  All Other  $50,000,000  $0
17__________       __________
18 OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL  $50,000,000  $0
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15SUMMARY
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16    This bill provides one-time funding of $50,000,000 to the Department of Health and
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17 Human Services, Nursing Facilities program, Nursing Facility Reform Transition Fund
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18 Other Special Revenue Funds account to fund components of nursing facility rates.
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