Sec. SSS-3. Revenue calculation requirement; community agency children's service providers. For fiscal year 2004-05 the fee scale established by the Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services under the rules adopted pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 34-B, section 1208, subsection 8 must be calculated to produce revenue for the service providers that are subject to those rules of a minimum of $700,000.

Sec. SSS-4. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.

BEHAVIORAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF

Mental Health Services - Children 0136

Initiative: Increases funding for room and board, flexible funds and training. This appropriation is intended to partially offset decreases in funding from fiscal year 2003-04 to fiscal year 2004-05.

General Fund 2003-04 2004-05

All Other $0 $1,250,000

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General Fund Total $0 $1,250,000

PART TTT

Sec. TTT-1. 22 MRSA §3174-T, sub-§5, ķA, as amended by PL 1999, c. 731, Pt. PP, §2 and repealed and replaced by PL 2003, c. 20, Pt. K, §10 and affected by §19 and c. 451, Pt. CCC, §§1 and 3, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:

A.__Premiums must be paid at the beginning of each month for coverage for that month according to the following scale:

(1)__Families with incomes between 150% and 160% of the federal nonfarm income official poverty line pay premiums of 5% of the benefit cost per child, but not more than 5% of the cost for 2 children;

(2) Families with incomes between 160% and 170% of the federal nonfarm income official poverty line pay premiums of 10% of the benefit cost per child, but not more than 10% of the cost for 2 children;