Sec. JJ-4. Other drug subsidy payment uses. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Budget Officer shall calculate the amount of drug subsidy payments received under the federal Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 that applies against all funds other than the General Fund and the Highway Fund. Based on this calculation, the State Controller shall make the appropriate transfers from the Accident, Sickness and Health Insurance Internal Service Fund to the affected funds no later than June 30, 2007.

PART KK

Sec. KK-1. Achievement of reduction through maximizing access to existing resources. The reduction made in this Part may not result in the loss of access to health care for individuals eligible under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 22, section 3174-G, subsection 1, paragraph F but must be achieved by maximizing access to existing community resources available to those individuals.

Sec. KK-2. Application of reduction. The Department of Health and Human Services shall apply the reduction made in this Part based on the results of an impact analysis determining the most equitable manner of application considering the capacity and other obligations of each available community resource.

Sec. KK-3. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF

Medical Care - Payments to Providers 0147

Initiative: Deappropriates and deallocates funds for savings achieved in the MaineCare childless adult waiver program.

GENERAL FUND 2005-06 2006-07

All Other $0 ($1,500,000)

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GENERAL FUND TOTAL $0 ($1,500,000)