8. It authorizes the Department of Human Services to establish minimum record-keeping requirements for agencies administering Temporary Assistance for Needy Families programs.

9. It specifies that $1,100,000 of unencumbered balance forward in fiscal year 2003-04 in the State Supplement to Federal Supplemental Security Income, General Fund account in the Department of Human Services lapses to the General Fund in fiscal year 2003-04.

PART EE

Part EE amends the law to allow for a partial transfer of funds from the General Fund to the Maine Clean Election Fund to occur on September 1, 2004.

PART FF

Part FF amends the law to require group health insurance policies and contracts, other than those covering employees of employers with 20 or fewer employees, to provide coverage for crisis and crisis residential services.

PART GG

Part GG amends the law to allow fees from borrow pits and mining to be deposited in the Maine Environmental Protection Fund consistent with the merger of the Borrow Pit Account into the Maine Environmental Protection Fund as a subaccount in Part A of the bill.

PART HH

Part HH does the following.

1. It amends the law to increase the allowable level of tax that may be imposed on hospital net revenues up to but not exceeding 2.03%.

2. It amends the law to allow hospitals to pay any tax levied against them in 2 equal payments, one due in November and the other due in May of the state fiscal year for which the tax is being imposed.

PART II