Health and Human Services

ME - Senator Ned Claxton (D)

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Member

ME - Senator Geoffrey Gratwick (U)

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Chair

ME - Senator Marianne Moore (R)

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Member

ME - Representative Patricia Hymanson (U)

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Chair

ME - Representative Margaret Craven (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Abigail W. Griffin (R)

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Member

ME - Representative Kathy Irene Javner (R)

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Member

ME - Representative Colleen M. Madigan (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Michele Meyer (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Beth A. O'Connor (R)

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Member

ME - Representative Anne C. Perry (U)

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Member

ME - Representative Holly B. Stover (D)

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ME - Representative Rachel Talbot Ross (D)

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Member

ME - LD20 An Act To Provide Coverage for Abortion Services for MaineCare Members

ME - LD21 An Act To Prohibit the Use of Electroconvulsive Therapy for Certain Populations

ME - LD40 Resolve, To Establish the Commission To Study Children's Mental Health

ME - LD45 An Act To Amend the Law Regarding Maine's Background Check Center

ME - LD46 An Act To Establish a Substance Use Disorder Clinic at the Cumberland County Jail

ME - LD78 An Act To Facilitate Access to the MaineCare Family Planning Benefit

ME - LD80 An Act To Create the Department of Substance Use Disorder Services

ME - LD84 Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services To Allow Spouses To Provide Home and Community-based Services to Eligible MaineCare Members

ME - LD99 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 Autism Spectrum Disorder, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Health and Human Services

ME - LD115 An Act To Appropriate Funds for Home Visiting Services To Provide Child Development Education and Skills Development for New Parents

ME - LD152 An Act To Prohibit the Possession and Use of Electronic Smoking Devices on School Grounds

ME - LD153 An Act To Strengthen Testing for Lead in School Drinking Water

ME - LD154 An Act To Amend the Law Governing MaineCare Coverage of Chiropractic Treatment

ME - LD129 An Act To Protect a Child from Misuse of Identity

ME - LD142 An Act To Increase Funding for the Fund for a Healthy Maine To Reduce Smoking

ME - LD177 Resolve, To Improve Access to Bariatric Care

ME - LD181 An Act To Provide Funding to the Department of Health and Human Services To Support Free Health Clinics in the State

ME - LD192 An Act To Require an Annual Report on the Activities of the Maine Child Welfare Advisory Panel

ME - LD195 An Act To Continue MaineCare Coverage for Parents During the Rehabilitation and Reunification Process

ME - LD222 An Act To Prohibit Child Care Providers from Requiring Payment during Vacation Closures

ME - LD227 An Act To Strengthen Maine's Public Health Infrastructure

ME - LD230 An Act To Improve Access to Preventive, Cost-saving Dental Services

ME - LD231 An Act To Improve Public Health by Maximizing Federal Funding Opportunities

ME - LD232 An Act To Change the Process by Which Designated Nonstate Mental Health Institutions Petition the District Court To Admit Certain Patients to a Progressive Treatment Program

ME - LD234 Resolve, To Increase Certain Chiropractic Reimbursement Rates under the MaineCare Program

ME - LD238 An Act To Increase the Minimum Area of Usable Space per Child Required in the Outdoor Area of a Child Care Center

ME - LD239 Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services To Explore the Development of a Behavioral Health Unit at the Cumberland County Jail

ME - LD266 An Act To Eliminate the 2-year Limit on MaineCare Coverage for Approved Drugs for Opioid Use Disorder

ME - LD282 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 Autism Spectrum Disorder, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Health and Human Services

ME - LD284 An Act To Improve Care Provided to Forensic Patients

ME - LD297 An Act To Strengthen Brain Injury Resources for Underserved Populations, Including Opioid Overdose Brain Injury Survivors

ME - LD303 An Act To Require Housing Facilities for Persons with Substance Use Disorder Be Equipped with Naloxone

ME - LD304 An Act To Improve Stroke Care in Maine

ME - LD315 An Act To Promote Healthy Living in Maine

ME - LD362 Resolve, To Require the Department of Health and Human Services To Submit a State Plan Amendment To Exempt Retirement and Educational Assets from Calculations for Medicaid Eligibility

ME - LD363 An Act To Protect Residents of Assisted Living Facilities

ME - LD325 An Act To Provide Emergency Funds for Clients of the Adult Protective Services System

ME - LD336 An Act To Require That Notice of Lead Abatement Orders Be Filed with the Registry of Deeds

ME - LD343 An Act To Promote Equity in Business Opportunity for Tobacco Specialty Stores

ME - LD373 An Act To Provide MaineCare Coverage for Dental Services to Adults with Intellectual Disabilities or Autism Spectrum Disorder

ME - LD392 An Act To Fund Maine's School-based Health Centers

ME - LD399 An Act To Align Wages for Direct Care Workers for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities or Autism with the Minimum Wage

ME - LD408 Resolve, To Improve Access to Neurobehavioral Services

ME - LD414 An Act To Provide Intensive Case Managers to Counties That Do Not Have County Jails or Regional Jails

ME - LD416 An Act To Allow Eating Establishments To Permit Smoking Tobacco in Designated Outdoor Eating Areas

ME - LD421 Resolve, To Amend the State Plan Regarding the Processing of Vouchers under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children by Farmers' Markets

ME - LD428 An Act To Establish Wage and Employment Parity between Adult and Child Protective Services Caseworkers in the Department of Health and Human Services

ME - LD439 Resolve, Directing the Commissioner of Health and Human Services To Convene a Task Force To Study the Need for Long-term Acute Care Hospital

ME - LD443 An Act To Prevent Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding and Eye Damage in Infants

ME - LD447 An Act Regarding the Substance Use Disorder Continuum of Care

ME - LD459 An Act To Include Homelessness in the Laws Governing Emergency General Assistance

ME - LD463 An Act To Reduce Obesity Rates in Maine

ME - LD472 An Act To Provide Meals to Homebound Individuals

ME - LD474 Resolve, To Ensure the Health and Wellness of Older Residents of the State

ME - LD476 Resolve, To Review the Delivery of Services to the Citizens of the State by the Department of Health and Human Services

ME - LD493 An Act To Provide Lung Cancer Counseling and Screening for MaineCare Recipients

ME - LD494 An Act To Update the Family Planning Statutes

ME - LD498 Resolve, Regarding Reimbursement of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Codes under MaineCare

ME - LD500 An Act To Extend the Limitation on Prescribing Opioids for Certain Individuals with Chronic Pain

ME - LD551 An Act To Ban Nicotine Liquid Containers

ME - LD552 An Act Relating to Penalties for an Employer for the Retail Sale of Tobacco Products to a Minor when the Employer Possesses a Driver's License Reader

ME - LD508 Resolve, To Study the Protection of Youth and Young Adults from Addiction and Premature Death by Restricting Marketing of Tobacco Products

ME - LD511 An Act To Create an Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Coordinator Position within the Department of Health and Human Services

ME - LD538 An Act To Ensure Access to Medical Cannabis for Visiting Qualifying Patients

ME - LD539 Resolve, To Ensure Appropriate Personal Needs Allowances for Persons Residing in Long-term Care Facilities

ME - LD578 Resolve, To Create a Pilot Program To Assist the Transition to Recovery of Persons Suffering from Opioid Use Disorder

ME - LD583 Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services To Study the State's Long-term Services and Supports System for Older Adults

ME - LD593 Resolve, To Stabilize the Behavioral Health Workforce and Avert More Expensive Treatments

ME - LD606 Resolve, To Require the Department of Health and Human Services To Provide Cost-based Reimbursement to Maine Veterans' Homes

ME - LD613 Resolve, Concerning the Adoption of Rules To Carry Out the Purpose of the Bridging Rental Assistance Program

ME - LD615 An Act To Protect the Integrity of the MaineCare Program

ME - LD633 An Act To Create a Permanent Navigator Position within the Department of Health and Human Services

ME - LD646 An Act To Improve Trust with Regard to Home Visitation by the Department of Health and Human Services by Requiring That Certain Visits Be Videotaped

ME - LD653 Resolve, To Establish the Task Force To Study Opportunities for Improving Home and Community-based Services

ME - LD683 An Act To Provide Social Workers to Persons with Mental Illness to Help Them Avoid Incarceration

ME - LD684 Resolve, Relating to the Prevention and Management of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

ME - LD692 Resolve, To Address Reimbursement Rates for Licensed Clinical Social Workers under MaineCare

ME - LD697 Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services To Conduct a Review of Rules Governing In-home Personal Care Assistance Services

ME - LD699 Resolve, To Provide for Outreach Programs To Assist Women at Risk of Giving Birth to Substance-exposed Infants

ME - LD706 An Act To Reduce the Incidence of Obesity and Chronic Disease in the State

ME - LD717 An Act To Provide Comprehensive Mental Health Treatment Reform

ME - LD724 An Act To Amend the Maine Background Check Center Act To Provide Employers Flexibility To Use Approved Alternate Vendors

ME - LD738 Resolve, Directing the Commissioner of Health and Human Services To Convene a Study Group To Review the Crisis Response System in the State

ME - LD745 An Act To Support the Northern New England Poison Center

ME - LD752 An Act To Reduce Food Insecurity and Promote Economic Growth

ME - LD761 An Act To Clarify and Affirm Medicaid Eligibility for Incarcerated Individuals

ME - LD763 An Act To Ensure the Availability of Community Integration Services

ME - LD765 Resolve, To Revise Asset Limits for Social Service Programs

ME - LD775 An Act To Expand Community Support Services for Certain Adult Members of the MaineCare Program

ME - LD803 An Act To Create 4 Regional Mental Health Receiving Centers

ME - LD821 An Act To Set Case Load Standards for the Office of Child and Family Services

ME - LD836 An Act To Expand Maine's School-based Health Centers

ME - LD838 Resolve, To Ensure the Continuation of Services to Maine Children and Families

ME - LD864 An Act To Make Whole Family Support Available Statewide

ME - LD876 Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Heath Services To Build Peer Respite Program Capacity in Maine by Implementing at Least One Peer Respite Program

ME - LD880 An Act To Respond to Federal Changes to Social Programs

ME - LD915 An Act To Provide Adequate Reimbursement under MaineCare for Ambulance and Neonatal Transport Services

ME - LD931 An Act Concerning the Department of Health and Human Services

ME - LD934 Resolve, To Review the Implementation of the Maine Background Check Center Act

ME - LD935 An Act To Increase the Viability of Assisted Living Facilities by Increasing the Rate of Reimbursement

ME - LD949 An Act To Prevent Overdose Deaths

ME - LD964 Resolve, To Study Housing Options for Persons with Mental Health Challenges and Substance Use Disorder

ME - LD966 An Act To Ensure Safer Childhood Vaccines

ME - LD993 An Act To Expand Recovery Support Services Offered in Penobscot and Piscataquis Counties and the Greater Bangor Region To Improve Access, Treatment and Recovery for Those Affected by Substance Use Disorder by Designating a Regional Peer-supported Recovery Center

ME - LD972 Resolve, To Increase Access to Brain Injury Waiver Services

ME - LD976 An Act To Require Additional Lead Screening for Children

ME - LD981 An Act To Implement the State's Recently Approved Request for a Section 1115 Demonstration for MaineCare

ME - LD982 Resolve, To Expand the Use of the Women, Infants and Children Special Supplemental Food Program at Farmers' Markets

ME - LD984 Resolve, To Increase Funding for Children's Behavioral Health Issues in Order To Return to the State Children Who Are Currently Housed in Residential Treatment Systems outside of the State and To Suspend Certain Contracts Related to Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities

ME - LD986 An Act To Expand Lead Inspections to Other Properties of the Owner of a Property Determined to Contain Lead

ME - LD1005 Resolve, To Establish a Pilot Project To Save Lives and Support People with Substance Use Disorder in Washington County

ME - LD1012 An Act To Provide Stable Funding and Support for Child Care Providers

ME - LD1006 Resolve, To Require the Development of Strategies for Reducing Health Disparities Based on Social Determinants

ME - LD1007 An Act To Expand and Enhance Maine's Behavioral Health Direct Care Workforce

ME - LD1030 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Substance Use Disorder Services Commission

ME - LD1032 An Act To Ensure Sufficient Representation of Adults Receiving Mental Health Services on Local Councils within the Consumer Council System of Maine

ME - LD1039 Resolve, To Establish and Fund Interventions for At-risk Families and Children

ME - LD1052 An Act To Require Regular and Transparent Review of MaineCare Reimbursement Rates

ME - LD1094 An Act To Increase Funding for Staffing for the Child Welfare Services Ombudsman Program

ME - LD1062 An Act To Support Maine Families by Providing for Transportation of Parents and Guardians of MaineCare Recipients under 18 Years of Age to Their Appointments

ME - LD1079 An Act To Require Public Schools To Periodically Test for Radon

ME - LD1106 An Act To Improve the Health and Economic Security of Older Residents

ME - LD1116 An Act To Strengthen the Lead Poisoning Control Act

ME - LD1125 An Act To Amend MaineCare Reimbursement Related to Bad Debt and Bed-hold Days

ME - LD1126 Resolve, To Classify Employee Health Insurance as a Fixed Cost for MaineCare Reimbursement in Nursing Homes

ME - LD1129 An Act To Clarify Certain Provisions of the Maine Medical Use of Marijuana Act

ME - LD1132 An Act To Provide Additional Food Supplement Assistance for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities

ME - LD1134 An Act To Set Aside Funds from Federal Block Grants for Certain Communities

ME - LD1135 Resolve, To Increase Funding for Assertive Community Treatment

ME - LD1137 An Act To Clarify the Background Check Process for Certain Child Care Workers

ME - LD1142 Resolve, To Expand Transportation Services for Seniors Who Are MaineCare Members

ME - LD1146 An Act To Ensure the Provision of Housing Navigation Services to Older Adults and Persons with Disabilities

ME - LD1153 An Act To Provide Flexibility in the Treatment of Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities or Autism

ME - LD1161 An Act To Restrict the Use of Mercury in Dental Fillings in State-funded Dental Procedures

ME - LD1178 An Act To Address the Needs of Children with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorder

ME - LD1180 Resolve, To Establish the Task Force To Better Coordinate the Protection of Vulnerable Populations

ME - LD1185 An Act To Facilitate Intervention by and Provision of Services through the Department of Health and Human Services for Certain Families Affected by Substance Use

ME - LD1190 An Act To Prohibit the Sale and Distribution of Flavored Tobacco Products

ME - LD1202 Resolve, To Develop a Plan To Improve Service Delivery to Individuals Receiving Medicaid Home and Community-based Services

ME - LD1218 An Act To Allow Maine Medical Marijuana Caregivers To Measure Cultivation Limits by Plant Canopy Size

ME - LD1225 An Act To Increase Funding for Home Visiting Programs

ME - LD1228 Resolve, Requiring the Department of Health and Human Services To Create a Limited Benefit MaineCare Card for Individuals Eligible for the Medicare Savings Program

ME - LD1235 An Act To Increase Safety in Health Care Facilities

ME - LD1247 Resolve, To Change the Work Requirement Rules under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program

ME - LD1259 Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services To Adopt Rules To Streamline and Remove Barriers for Reimbursement for Providers of Dental Care Services

ME - LD1275 An Act To Support Access to Health Services for Homeless Youth in Maine

ME - LD1277 An Act To Require the Director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention To Be Credentialed

ME - LD1288 An Act To Establish a MaineCare Reimbursement Rate Review Process and the MaineCare Independent Rate Commission

ME - LD1289 Resolve, To Reduce the Incidence of Infants Exposed to Illegal Substances

ME - LD1297 An Act To Reduce Youth Cancer Risk

ME - LD1308 An Act To Better Fund Nursing Homes in the State To Better Help the Elderly and Disabled

ME - LD1309 An Act To Index MaineCare Reimbursement to Nursing Homes and Other Adult Care Facilities to Increases in the Minimum Wage

ME - LD1313 An Act To Enact the Maine Death with Dignity Act

ME - LD1315 An Act To Support Medically Monitored Crisis Support and Intervention

ME - LD1317 An Act To Restore Services To Help Certain Noncitizens Meet Their Basic Needs

ME - LD1318 Resolve, To Increase Access to Housing-related Support Services

ME - LD1337 An Act To Save Lives by Establishing a Homeless Opioid Users Service Engagement Program within the Department of Health and Human Services

ME - LD1356 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapters II and III, Section 40: Home Health Services, a Late-filed Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Health and Human Services

ME - LD1360 Resolve, To Expand Eligibility for Presumptive Eligibility Determinations by Hospitals

ME - LD1373 Resolve, To Reduce MaineCare Spending through Targeted Nutrition Interventions

ME - LD1374 An Act To Amend the Maine Medical Use of Marijuana Act

ME - LD1377 An Act To Enhance and Improve the Maine Developmental Services Oversight and Advisory Board and To Establish an Independent Oversight Panel To Review Deaths of and Serious Injuries to Persons with Intellectual Disabilities or Autism

ME - LD1378 An Act To Ensure the Provision of Medical Assessments for Youth in Foster Care

ME - LD1399 An Act To Improve Oral Health and Access to Dental Care for Maine Children

ME - LD1403 An Act To Amend the General Assistance Laws Governing Eligibility and Reimbursement

ME - LD1404 Resolve, To Require the Department of Health and Human Services To Request a Waiver Relating to Support Services and To Provide Funds To Prevent Homelessness

ME - LD1417 An Act To Expand Access to Head Start To Assist Opioid-affected and Other At-risk Families

ME - LD1418 An Act To Address Maine's Shortage of Behavioral Health Services for Minors

ME - LD1429 An Act To Fund Opioid Use Disorder Prevention and Treatment

ME - LD1450 Resolve, To Mitigate the Increasing Waiting List for Services under the MaineCare Section 21 Waiver Program

ME - LD1453 An Act To Improve Dental Health for Maine Children and Adults with Low Incomes

ME - LD1461 An Act To Support Early Intervention and Treatment of Mental Health Disorders

ME - LD1484 An Act To Create a System Using the Permit for Disposition of Human Remains To Track the Burial of Cremated Remains in a Public Cemetery

ME - LD1486 An Act To Strengthen Supports for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities or Autism in Crisis

ME - LD1505 An Act To Amend the Marijuana Laws To Correct Inconsistencies in Recently Enacted Laws

ME - LD1510 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 97: Private Non-Medical Institution Services and Appendices B, C, D, E and F, a Late-filed Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Health and Human Services

ME - LD1512 An Act Regarding Persons Who Are Found Not Criminally Responsible and Are Sent out of State for Treatment

ME - LD1523 An Act To Ensure the Quality of and Increase Access to Recovery Residences

ME - LD1526 An Act To Increase the Availability of Foster Homes

ME - LD1539 An Act To Provide Maine Children Access to Affordable Health Care

ME - LD1548 Resolve, To Promote Quality and Transparency in the Provision of Services by Assisted Housing Programs That Provide Memory Care

ME - LD1577 An Act To Assist Nursing Homes in the Management of Facility Beds

ME - LD1595 An Act To Enhance the Child Welfare Ombudsman Program

ME - LD1602 Resolve, Establishing the Working Group on Mental Health

ME - LD1616 An Act To Establish the Vaccine Consumer Protection Program

ME - LD1630 Resolve, To Ensure Access to Opiate Addiction Treatment

ME - LD1635 Resolve, To Improve Access to Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment Services for Children from Birth to 8 Years of Age