Sec. E-1. 34-A MRSA §3031-B is enacted to read:

§3031-B.__Limitation on reimbursement rate to medical service

providers for services outside department facility

Effective July 1, 2004, the department or its contracted medical provider may pay to a provider of a medical service for a person residing in a correctional or detention facility an amount no greater than the reimbursement rate applicable to that provider and that service as established by rule of the Department of Human Services for the MaineCare program under Title 22.__This limitation applies to all medical care services, goods, prescription drugs and medications provided to a person outside the facility.

PART F

Sec. F-1. General Purpose Aid for Local Schools, General Fund account; lapsed balances. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, $1,365,855 of the unencumbered balance forward in fiscal year 2003-04 in the General Purpose Aid for Local Schools, General Fund account in the Department of Education lapses to the General Fund no later than June 30, 2004.

PART G

Sec. G-1. 22 MRSA §2681, sub-§2, ¶B, as amended by PL 2003, c. 494, §4, is further amended to read:

B. "Initial discounted price" for a drug means the price the department pays MaineCare the amount that participating retail pharmacies for that drug for MaineCare members may charge qualified residents participating in the program for that drug, as established by the department through rulemaking.

Sec. G-2. Department of Human Services; emergency rulemaking. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commissioner of Human Services is authorized to adopt rules to implement the provisions of the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 22, section 2681, subsection 2, paragraph B and those rules are emergency rules in accordance with Title 5, section 8054.

Sec. G-3. Rulemaking to maximize state savings. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of Human Services shall adopt rules for the elderly low-cost drug program that maximize state savings for the coordination of benefits under the State's