121st Maine Legislature
		Office of Fiscal and Program Review
		LD 1913
		An Act to Establish the Department of Health and Human Services
		LR 2740(02)
		Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment " "
		Committee: Health and Human Services
		Fiscal Note Required: Yes
Fiscal Note
Current Costs - Legislative Study
Undetermined current biennium savings - General Fund
Undetermined current biennium cost increase - General Fund
Legislative Study
	The projected costs for the Health and Human Services committee to meet four times to oversee planning, service delivery and implementation of issues as well as to review the statutes governing the new department is $5,460 in fiscal year 2004-05.  The Legislature has budgeted  $20,000 in fiscal year 2004-05 for legislative studies.  Whether the amounts are sufficient to fund all studies will depend on the number of studies authorized by the Legislative Council and the Legislature.
Fiscal Detail and Notes
	PL 2003, c. 20, included a statewide deappropriation of $5,800,000 in state fiscal year 2004-05 associated with the merger of the two departments.  The bill does not include sufficient information to evaluate and determine if these savings can be achieved in the current biennium.