Highway Fund 2003-04 2004-05

All Other $0 ($75,000)

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Highway Fund Total $0 ($75,000)

PART CC

Sec. CC-1. 22 MRSA §3175-C, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 714, Pt. NN, §1, is amended to read:

§3175-C. Delinquent hospital taxes to be withheld from Medicaid

payments

When the commissioner receives written notice from the State Tax Assessor that a hospital is delinquent by more than 30 days in making a health care provider tax payment required by Title

36, section 2883 or chapter 377, the commissioner shall, upon 10 days' written notice, withhold the outstanding amount of tax, together with any applicable interest and penalties, from the hospital's Medicaid payments. All amounts withheld by the commissioner pursuant to this section are deemed to be health care provider tax payments by the hospital and must be transferred within 30 days to the State Tax Assessor, who shall apply the amount in question to the hospital's tax account.

PART DD

Sec. DD-1. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.

CORRECTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF

Administration - Corrections 0141

Initiative: Deappropriates an unobligated balance of funds originally intended to support the activities of the Commission to Improve the Sentencing, Supervision, Management and Incarceration of Prisoners.

General Fund 2003-04 2004-05

All Other ($130,000) $0

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General Fund Total (130,000) 0

CORRECTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF

DEPARTMENT TOTALS 2003-04 2004-05