| Sec. 1. Increase emergency assistance. Resolved: That by January 1, 2004 |
| the Department of Human Services shall adopt rules to increase |
| to $400 a year the amount of money that is allowed to needy |
| families with children under the department's program of |
| emergency assistance provided in the Maine Revised Statutes, |
| Title 22, section 3761. The rules adopted pursuant to this |
| section are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, |
| chapter 375, subchapter 2-A. |