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Page 1 of 3 An Act To Amend Certain Requirements in the ASPIRE-TANF Program Page 3 of 3
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LR 3008
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In addition, all public and private agencies are subject to the
following requirements.

 
A. All agencies that receive funds from any state
department or division must provide at least one workforce-
MaineServe opportunity for an ASPIRE-TANF participant.

 
B. All state agencies that provide funding for child care
or transportation services must require that recipients of
TANF be given priority for those services.

 
C. All agencies that receive funds from any state agency
for the treatment of drug or alcohol abuse must require that
recipients of TANF be given priority for those services.

 
The department shall work with and shall contract with agencies
to work with families in which there are multiple barriers to
achieving employment and shall provide those agencies incentives
for working with the families to achieve employment. For each
family placed with an agency, the department shall pay a fee.
For each family member placed in full-time employment, the
department shall pay a premium. For each family member placed in
full-time employment in a job that provides health care benefits,
the department shall pay an additional bonus payment. The
commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this
subsection.

 
Sec. 3. 22 MRSA §3788, sub-§14, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 530, Pt. A,
§26, is repealed.

 
Sec. 4. 22 MRSA §3789-B, as corrected by RR 2003, c. 2, §75, is
repealed.

 
Sec. 5. 22 MRSA §3789-C, as enacted by PL 1995, c. 418, Pt. A, §36,
is repealed.

 
SUMMARY

 
This bill accomplishes the following:

 
1. It clarifies that participants in the Parents as Scholars
Program are not limited to a maximum of 24 months of education,
training and treatment in the ASPIRE-TANF program;

 
2. It eliminates a never-used provision for contracting with
agencies to eliminate multiple barriers to achieving employment;


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