Sec. 17. 34-A MRSA §1403, sub-§10, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 682, §1, is amended to read:

10. Inmate benefit welfare account. The commissioner shall provide an accounting of all inmate benefit welfare accounts and of the student welfare fund at the Maine Youth Center each fiscal year to the joint select standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over corrections matters. The annual accounting must include total income for the year, total expenditures for the year, anticipated capital and operating expenditures from these accounts in the next fiscal year and balances in the accounts. Nothing in this subsection may change the nature of these accounts as internal management tools.

Sec. 18. 34-A MRSA §3003, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1997, c. 714, §2, is further amended to read:

1. Limited disclosure. All orders of commitment, medical and administrative records, applications and reports, and facts contained in them, pertaining to any person receiving services from the department, must be kept confidential and may not be disclosed by any person, except that public records must be disclosed in accordance with Title 1, section 408, criminal history record information may be disseminated in accordance with Title 16, chapter 3, subchapter VIII, and documents, other than those documents pertaining to information obtained by the department for the purpose of evaluating a client's ability to participate in a community-based program or from informants in a correctional or detention facility for the purpose of determining whether facility rules have been violated, or a victim's request for notice of release, may, and must upon request, be disclosed:

A. To any person, if the person receiving services, that person's legal guardian, if any, and, if that person is a minor, that person's parent or legal guardian, gives informed written consent to the disclosure of the documents referred to in this subsection after being given the opportunity to review the documents sought to be disclosed;

B. To any state agency if necessary to carry out the statutory functions of that agency;