Health and Human Services

ME - Senator Eric Brakey (U)

Title:

Chair

ME - Senator Earle McCormick (U)

Title:

Member

ME - Senator Anne Haskell (U)

Title:

Member

ME - Representative Drew Gattine (D)

Title:

Chair

ME - Representative Peter C. Stuckey (D)

Title:

Member

ME - Representative Matthew J. Peterson (D)

Title:

Member

ME - Representative Scott M. Hamann (D)

Title:

Member

ME - Representative Christine S. Burstein (D)

Title:

Member

ME - Representative Patricia Hymanson (D)

Title:

Member

ME - Representative Deborah J. Sanderson (R)

Title:

Ranking Minority Member

ME - Representative Richard S. Malaby (R)

Title:

Member

ME - Representative Frances M. Head (R)

Title:

Member

ME - Representative Karen Vachon (R)

Title:

Member

ME - LD1037 An Act To Establish a 180-day Residency Requirement for Welfare Benefits

ME - LD1035 An Act To Create a 9-month Time Limit on General Assistance Benefits

ME - LD1036 An Act To Prioritize Use of Available Resources in General Assistance Programs

ME - LD1034 An Act To Prohibit the Use of EBT Cards for Cash Withdrawals

ME - LD1097 An Act To Improve the Integrity of Maine's Welfare Programs

ME - LD1052 An Act To Feed Rural Citizens of the State

ME - LD1050 An Act To Reimburse Nursing Homes for the Loss of Coinsurance and Deductibles for Skilled Nursing Beds under Rules Adopted by the Department of Health and Human Services

ME - LD1078 An Act To Preserve MaineCare Assisted Living by Providing a Cost-of-living Adjustment to Private Nonmedical Institutions and Adult Family Care Homes

ME - LD1365 An Act Regarding Licensed Children's Programs

ME - LD1090 Resolve, To Establish a Pilot Project for Medicaid Reimbursement for Acupuncture Treatment of Substance Abuse Disorders

ME - LD35 An Act To Provide Legal Protection to Hospitals where Admitted Qualifying Patients Use Smokeless Forms of Medical Marijuana

ME - LD21 An Act To Amend the Medical Marijuana Laws

ME - LD20 An Act To Improve Substance Abuse Treatment

ME - LD23 An Act To Remove from the Maine Medical Use of Marijuana Act the Requirement That a Patient's Medical Condition Be Debilitating

ME - LD1108 An Act To Protect Children and the Public from Electronic Cigarette Vapor

ME - LD1129 Resolve, To Change the Requirements for Nursing Services in Home Health Care

ME - LD1134 An Act To Require the Department of Health and Human Services To Distribute Information Regarding Down Syndrome to Providers of Prenatal and Postnatal Care and to Genetic Counselors

ME - LD1115 An Act To Make the State's Standard for Lead Exposure in Children Consistent with the Federal Standard

ME - LD1193 An Act To Encourage Good Nutrition and Healthy Choices in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

ME - LD1295 An Act To Streamline Regulation of Farms, Food Producers and Food Establishments

ME - LD1294 An Act To Improve the Health of Maine Residents through Education and Health Care

ME - LD1368 An Act To Require the Documentation of the Use of Seclusion and Restraint at Mental Health Institutions in the State

ME - LD84 An Act Concerning Screening of Newborns for Lysosomal Storage Disorders

ME - LD63 Resolve, To Require the Department of Health and Human Services To Provide Supplemental Reimbursement to Adult Family Care Homes and Residential Care Facilities in Remote Island Locations

ME - LD75 Resolve, To Strengthen Health Care Services for Maine Residents Affected by Neurodegenerative Diseases

ME - LD45 An Act To Exempt Certain Capital Expenditures from the Maine Certificate of Need Act of 2002

ME - LD101 An Act To Strengthen and Reform Maine's Welfare System

ME - LD123 An Act To Reduce Youth Cancer Risk

ME - LD90 Resolve, To Ensure Appropriate Personal Needs Allowances for Persons Residing in Long-term Care Facilities

ME - LD87 Resolve, To Implement the Recommendations of the Commission To Continue the Study of Long-term Care Facilities

ME - LD1385 An Act To Enable a Foster Child To Remain in a Daycare Facility Selected by a Foster Parent

ME - LD940 Resolve, To Require Hospitals To Provide Information to Parents of Infants Regarding Testing for Krabbe Disease

ME - LD969 An Act To Preserve Jobs and Primary Care Services in Rural and Underserved Areas of Maine

ME - LD1006 An Act To Prevent Beneficiaries under the Statewide Food Supplement Program from Carrying Forward Unused Benefit Amounts

ME - LD977 An Act To Improve Child Care in the State

ME - LD989 An Act To Limit the Use of Extended-release Hydrocodone Bitartrate

ME - LD1465 An Act To Require the State To Adequately Pay for Emergency Medical Services

ME - LD1496 An Act To Support Maine People in Recovery

ME - LD1472 Resolve, To Enhance the Administration of the Child and Adult Care Food Program by Creating Clear Guidelines for Organizations and Streamlining the Application Process

ME - LD1498 An Act To Clarify Medicaid Managed Care Ombudsman Services

ME - LD1473 Resolve, To Increase Access to Opiate Addiction Treatment in Maine

ME - LD1470 An Act To Amend Maine's Death Certificate Disclosure Law

ME - LD1497 An Act To Align the Child and Family Services and Child Protection Act with the Federal Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act

ME - LD1548 An Act To Establish a Foster Parents' Bill of Rights

ME - LD1621 Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services To Amend Its Rules Governing Reimbursement to Hospitals for Patients Awaiting Placement in Nursing Facilities

ME - LD1620 Resolve, Establishing a Stakeholder Group To Examine Methods of Protecting the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities from Financial Exploitation

ME - LD1616 An Act To Expand Geropsychiatric Facility Capacity

ME - LD1617 An Act Regarding the Long-term Care Ombudsman Program

ME - LD1615 Resolve, To Establish the Commission To Continue the Study of Difficult-to-place Patients

ME - LD1618 An Act To Provide Additional Resources for Nurse Education Consultants in the Department of Health and Human Services

ME - LD1619 Resolve, Regarding Home Care Service Rates for Serving Persons with Complex Medical Needs

ME - LD1650 An Act To Enact the Recommendations of the Study of the Allocations of the Fund for a Healthy Maine

ME - LD1348 An Act To Protect Older Adults from Financial Exploitation

ME - LD1349 An Act To Establish the Office of the Inspector General in the Department of Health and Human Services

ME - LD1350 Resolve, To Increase the Reimbursement Rate for Direct-care Workers Serving Adults with Long-term Care Needs

ME - LD1356 Resolve, To Create a Working Group To Ensure a Stable Continuum of Care for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism

ME - LD1077 An Act To Ensure Access to Public Health Nursing Care and Child and Maternal Health Nursing Care in Washington County

ME - LD1076 Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services To Increase Public Awareness about and Access to Federal Resources Related to Vaccine Injuries

ME - LD1058 An Act Regarding Medical Marijuana Registered Testing Laboratories

ME - LD1030 An Act To Better Coordinate the Work of Mental Health Crisis Agencies with Law Enforcement Agencies

ME - LD7 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 101, MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 21: Allowances for Home and Community Benefits for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities or Autistic Disorder, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Health and Human Services

ME - LD5 An Act To Remove the Limit on the Number of Patients a Primary Caregiver May Provide for under the Medical Marijuana Laws

ME - LD517 Resolve, To Reconcile Conflicts between the Home and Community-based Waiver Program for the Elderly and Adults with Disabilities and the Requirements of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Public Safety

ME - LD1049 An Act To Further Define Duties for Persons Who Hold Powers of Attorney or Act as Agents for Residents of Long-term Care Facilities

ME - LD1149 Resolve, Directing the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention To Report on Progress toward Meeting Healthy Maine 2020 Goals Pertaining to Reproductive Health

ME - LD1170 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 11: Rules Governing the Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program, a Late-filed Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Health and Human Services

ME - LD1144 An Act To Ensure the Integrity of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program

ME - LD1162 An Act To Ensure Safe Drinking Water for Maine Families

ME - LD1307 An Act To Fund the Maine Diversion Alert Program

ME - LD559 An Act To Notify Parents of a Complaint against a Child Care Facility or a Family Child Care Provider

ME - LD526 Resolve, To Require the Department of Health and Human Services To Request a Waiver To Prohibit the Use of Food Supplement Benefits for the Purchase of Taxable Food Items

ME - LD597 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 29: Allowances for Support Services for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities or Autistic Disorder, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Health and Human Services

ME - LD552 An Act To Provide Funding for Home Visiting Services

ME - LD524 Resolve, To Develop a Pilot Program for Medication-assisted Recovery in a Rural Community at least 30 Miles from Bangor

ME - LD525 Resolve, To Direct the Department of Health and Human Services To Report on Efforts To Reach in Rural Areas Persons Who Are Elderly, Disabled or Mentally Ill

ME - LD473 Resolve, Directing the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services To Jointly Adopt Rules To Protect Children's Health

ME - LD1375 An Act To Increase Accountability in Maine's Welfare Programs

ME - LD539 An Act To Increase Utilization of the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center

ME - LD560 An Act Regarding Patient Information Under the Maine Medical Use of Marijuana Act

ME - LD582 An Act To Establish a State Educational Medicaid Officer

ME - LD1324 An Act To Create Transparency with Regard to Large Employers in the State with Workforce Members Who Receive Public Benefits

ME - LD1337 An Act To Fund the Family Caregiver Support Program

ME - LD1316 An Act Regarding the Employment of Certified Nursing Assistants and Direct Care Workers

ME - LD471 An Act To Improve Childhood Vaccination Rates in Maine

ME - LD632 An Act To Require the State To Administer and Fund the General Assistance Program

ME - LD649 Resolve, To Ensure That MaineCare-eligible Children Have Equal Access to Providers of Dental, Hearing and Vision Services

ME - LD607 An Act To Stop the Abuse of Electronic Benefits Transfer Cards

ME - LD661 An Act To Fund HIV, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Viral Hepatitis Screening, Prevention, Diagnostic and Treatment Services

ME - LD1407 An Act To Require Screening and Testing for Illegal Substances of Beneficiaries under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program

ME - LD1402 An Act To Reward Work Performed by Welfare Recipients

ME - LD714 Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services To Study Providing Medical Assistance to Maine's Inhabited Islands

ME - LD663 Resolve, To Require That the Department of Health and Human Services Determine Whether Testing for Krabbe Disease Should Be Required for Newborns

ME - LD752 An Act To Permit Medical Marijuana Cultivation by Incapacitated Adults

ME - LD751 An Act To Provide Consideration of the Need for Nursing Facility Beds in the Area Where They Are Located before Those Beds Are Lost

ME - LD722 An Act To Strengthen Penalties for Abuse of General Assistance

ME - LD726 An Act To Increase Patient Safety in Maine's Medical Marijuana Program

ME - LD734 An Act To Repeal the Certificate of Need Requirement for Hospitals

ME - LD715 Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services To Hire Health Inspectors

ME - LD139 An Act To Allow the Electronic Transfer of Marriage Certificates

ME - LD133 Resolve, To Establish the Task Force on Independence from Public Assistance

ME - LD140 An Act To Expand Access To Lifesaving Opioid Overdose Medication

ME - LD816 An Act To Reform Welfare and Eliminate the Welfare Cliff

ME - LD812 An Act To Prevent Drug Overdose Deaths by Enhancing Access to Opioid Antagonists

ME - LD808 An Act To Decrease Uncompensated Care, Reduce Medical Debt and Improve Health Outcomes

ME - LD821 An Act To Promote Equity in Business Opportunity for Tobacco Specialty Stores

ME - LD917 Resolve, To Improve Access to Dental Care through a Pediatric Medical Benefit

ME - LD905 An Act To Study Allocations of the Fund for a Healthy Maine

ME - LD885 An Act To Promote Enhanced Eligibility Verification in Maine's Welfare System

ME - LD886 Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services To Increase Reimbursement Rates for Home-based and Community-based Services

ME - LD854 An Act To Increase Access to Health Security by Expanding Federally Funded Health Care for Maine People

ME - LD154 An Act To Promote Greater Flexibility in the Provision of Long-term Care Services

ME - LD155 An Act To Expand Housing Opportunities for Patients with Complex Medical Conditions

ME - LD180 An Act To Allow Terminally Ill Patients To Choose To Use Experimental Treatments

ME - LD179 Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services To Provide Coverage under the MaineCare Program for Routine Male Newborn Circumcisions

ME - LD213 An Act To Ensure the Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Educational and Behavioral Assessment of Children Entering State Custody

ME - LD219 An Act To Protect a Child from Misuse of Identity

ME - LD274 Resolve, To Direct the Department of Health and Human Services To Address the Growing Deficit in Room and Board Allowances Paid to Agencies Providing Residential Services to Adults with Intellectual Disabilities or Autism

ME - LD266 An Act To Allow Access for Law Enforcement Officers to the List of Registered Primary Caregivers for Medical Marijuana Patients

ME - LD358 An Act To Provide Additional Oversight over the Management of the Department of Health and Human Services

ME - LD369 An Act To Align Municipal General Assistance Programs with the Immigration Status Policies of the Department of Health and Human Services

ME - LD423 An Act To Require Child-resistant Packaging for Nicotine Liquid Containers

ME - LD319 An Act To Strengthen the Economic Stability of Qualified Maine Citizens by Expanding Coverage of Reproductive Health Care and Family Services

ME - LD327 An Act To Require Prescribers of Controlled Substances To Use the Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program Software

ME - LD343 An Act To Align the Federal Affordable Care Act's Health Care Coverage Opportunities and Hospital Charity Care

ME - LD368 An Act To Integrate the State's General Assistance and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Programs

ME - LD421 An Act To Improve Program Integrity Activities within the Department of Health and Human Services

ME - LD966 An Act To Assist Patients in Need of Psychiatric Services

ME - LD1352 An Act To Facilitate the Delivery of Health Care Services through Telemedicine and Telehealth

ME - LD1432 An Act To Consolidate the Investigation of Out-of-home Child Abuse and Neglect

ME - LD1125 An Act To Expand Public Access to Epinephrine Autoinjectors

ME - LD1439 An Act To Establish a Secure Internet-based Background Check Center for Providers of Long-term Care, Child Care and In-home and Community-based Services

ME - LD1547 An Act To Provide Access to Affordable Naloxone Hydrochloride for First Responders

ME - LD1552 An Act To Reduce Morbidity and Mortality Related to Injected Drugs

ME - LD1577 An Act To Increase the Availability of Mental Health Services

ME - LD1599 Resolve, To Implement the Recommendations of the Commission To Strengthen and Align the Services Provided to Maine's Veterans by Authorizing MaineCare Transportation Services To Transport Veterans to Medical Appointments Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs

ME - LD1631 An Act To Reduce the Liability of Maine Taxpayers by Aligning Maine's Welfare Programs with Federal Law

ME - LD1638 An Act To Increase Payments to MaineCare Providers That Are Subject to Maine's Service Provider Tax

ME - LD1644 Resolve, Establishing the Commission To Study Ways To Support and Strengthen the Direct Care Workforce across the Long-term Care Continuum

ME - LD1646 An Act To Prevent Opiate Abuse by Strengthening the Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program

ME - LD1648 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program and To Review Limits on the Prescription of Controlled Substances

ME - LD1682 An Act To Specify That Certain Rules Regarding Services to Persons with Intellectual Disabilities or Autism Are Major Substantive Rules

ME - LD1698 Resolve, Related To Legislative Review of a Change to the MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapters II and III, Section 17

ME - LD1696 Resolve, To Establish a Moratorium on Rate Changes Related to Rule Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Sections 13, 17, 28 and 65

ME - LD1061 Resolve, To Create the Commission To Study a Stable Continuum of Care for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism

ME - LD1059 An Act Relating to Marijuana Testing Facilities

ME - LD1079 Resolve, To Support and Encourage the Development of an Adult Family Care Demonstration Project in Washington County

ME - LD1054 An Act To Provide Funding for Head Start Services

ME - LD433 An Act To Clarify the Liability of Funeral Practitioners

ME - LD436 An Act To Require Providers of Short-term Lodging To Be Licensed by the State

ME - LD474 An Act To Improve Access to Dental Care in Maine

ME - LD477 Resolve, To Increase Funding To Support Peer Centers

ME - LD469 An Act To Promote the Disposal of Unused Medications

ME - LD476 An Act To Require Pharmacies To Provide Disposal Receptacles for Used Hypodermic Apparatuses

ME - LD478 An Act To Require That Death Certificates Be Signed Using an Electronic Signature System

ME - LD475 Resolve, To Increase MaineCare Services for Certain Recipients To Allow Them To Remain at Home

ME - LD452 An Act To Require a Work Search for Job-ready Applicants for Benefits under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program

ME - LD470 An Act To Allow Children's Residential Care Facilities To Ensure the Safety of Their Residents

ME - LD472 An Act To Establish Meals on Wheels as a Service Covered under the MaineCare Program

ME - LD1268 An Act To Reform Welfare by Establishing Bridges to Sustainable Employment

ME - LD1270 An Act Regarding Patient-directed Care at the End of Life

ME - LD1209 An Act To Increase the Effectiveness of Peer Supports in the State

ME - LD1237 An Act Regarding the Filing of Death and Marriage Records

ME - LD1258 An Act To Amend the Maine Medical Use of Marijuana Act with Regard to Good Business Practices

ME - LD1236 An Act To Change the Type of Rulemaking Required Regarding Persons with Intellectual Disabilities or Autism

ME - LD1267 An Act To Assist Working Families with Young Children

ME - LD622 An Act To Require Training of Mandated Reporters under the Child Abuse Laws

ME - LD647 An Act To Require the Department of Health and Human Services To Update Its Rules Governing Services for Children with Cognitive Impairments and Functional Limitations

ME - LD604 An Act To Encourage Communication Regarding Persons with Mental Illness

ME - LD605 Resolve, To Provide Certain Dental Services to Pregnant Women Enrolled in the MaineCare Program

ME - LD662 An Act To Increase Access to Health Care through Telemedicine

ME - LD606 An Act To Remove the Philosophical Exemption from the Immunization Requirements for School Students and Employees of Nursery Schools and Health Care Facilities

ME - LD664 Resolve, To Direct the Department of Health and Human Services To Submit a State Plan Amendment To Allow Community-based and Other Health Care Providers To Be Reimbursed by MaineCare

ME - LD667 Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services To Educate the Public and Department Clients about How To Protect One's Family from Bisphenol A

ME - LD665 An Act To Establish a Block Grant Program for Homemaker Services

ME - LD666 An Act To Allow a Patient To Designate a Caregiver in the Patient's Medical Record

ME - LD1392 An Act To Amend the Maine Medical Use of Marijuana Act

ME - LD841 Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services To Develop a Bus Pass Program

ME - LD860 Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services To Adjust Reimbursement Rates for Dental Services under the MaineCare Program

ME - LD736 An Act To Require Destruction of Certain Medical Records and Allow Access to Certain Death Records

ME - LD842 An Act To Establish Peer Center Reimbursement

ME - LD772 An Act To Amend the Membership of the Child Care Advisory Council

ME - LD771 An Act To Promote Dental Services for Prenatal and Postpartum Women

ME - LD782 An Act To Improve the Quality of Life of Persons with Serious Illnesses

ME - LD831 Resolve, To Reduce MaineCare Spending through Targeted Prevention Services

ME - LD766 An Act To Require a Medical Marijuana Primary Caregiver Cultivating in a Residential Building To Obtain an Electrical Permit

ME - LD483 An Act Regarding the Reporting Standards for Child Abuse

ME - LD798 An Act To Strengthen Maine's Hospitals and Increase Access to Health Care

ME - LD633 An Act To Improve the Health of Maine Citizens and the Economy of Maine by Providing Affordable Market-based Coverage Options to Low-income Uninsured Citizens

ME - LD832 An Act To Improve Public Health in Maine

ME - LD205 An Act To Facilitate the Development and Operation of a Group Home for Post-High School Adults with Developmental Disabilities

ME - LD292 An Act To Require Hospitals To Allow Patients To Provide Their Own Medications

ME - LD949 An Act To Enact the Recommendations of the Commission on Independent Living and Disability

ME - LD928 Resolve, To Enhance Consumer Awareness of Expenditures and Gifts by Manufacturers of Prescribed Products

ME - LD1412 An Act To Fund a Training Partnership between Riverview Psychiatric Center and the University of Maine at Augusta

ME - LD1426 An Act Regarding the Maine Registry of Certified Nursing Assistants and Direct Care Workers

ME - LD1428 An Act To Establish the Forensic Treatment Fund To Establish a Behavioral Assessment and Safety Evaluation Unit

ME - LD1527 An Act To Facilitate MaineCare Assisted Living by Providing a Cost-of-living Adjustment to Private Nonmedical Institutions and Adult Family Care Homes

ME - LD1533 An Act To Provide an Annual Cost-of-living Adjustment to Nursing Facilities To Further Implement the Recommendations of the Commission To Study Long-term Care Facilities

ME - LD1522 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of the Final Repeal of Chapter 101, MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 32: Allowances for Waiver Services for Children with Intellectual Disabilities or Pervasive Developmental Disorders, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Health and Human Services

ME - LD1581 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 270: Uniform Reporting System for Quality Data Sets, a Late-filed Major Substantive Rule of the Maine Health Data Organization

ME - LD1573 An Act To Improve Hospital Governance by Clarifying the Requirement for a Certificate of Need for Intracorporation Transfers

ME - LD1665 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 120: Release of Data to the Public, a Late-filed Major Substantive Rule of the Maine Health Data Organization