CHAPTER 503

S.P. 498 - L.D. 1498

An Act To Improve Access by the Department of Corrections to

Federal Funds under Title IV-E of the federal Social

Security Act

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 15 MRSA §3314, sub-§1, ¶H, as amended by PL 1999, c. 624, Pt. A, §7, is further amended to read:

H. The court may commit the juvenile to a Department of Corrections juvenile correctional facility and order that the disposition be suspended or may commit the juvenile for a period of detention that may not exceed 30 days, with or without an underlying suspended disposition to a Department of Corrections juvenile correctional facility, which detention must be served concurrently with any other period of detention previously imposed and not fully discharged or imposed on the same date but may be served intermittently as the court may order and must be ordered served in a detention facility approved or operated by the Department of Corrections exclusively for juveniles. The court may order such a disposition to be served as a part of and with a period of probation that is subject to such provisions of Title 17-A, section 1204 as the court may order and that must be administered pursuant to Title 34-A, chapter 5, subchapter IV 4. Revocation of probation is governed by the procedure contained in subsection 2. Any disposition under this paragraph is subject to Title 17-A, section 1253, subsection 2, but not to Title 17-A, section 1253, subsection 3-B, 4, 5 or 8. Whenever a juvenile is committed for a period of detention, the court shall determine whether reasonable efforts have been made to prevent or eliminate the need for removal of the juvenile from the juvenile's