Sec. N-1. Appropriation. The following funds are appropriated from the General Fund to carry out the purposes of this Part.
1998-99
HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF
Bureau of Elder and Adult Services
All Other $159,000
Provides funds for homemaker services, adult day care and Alzheimer's respite care to reduce the number of persons on the waiting list.
Long Term Care - Human Services
All Other 443,040
Provides funds for home-based care to reduce the number of persons on the waiting list.
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES ____________
TOTAL $602,040
Sec. N-2. Plan submittal by Department of Human Services. The Commissioner of Human Services shall submit a plan to the Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs and the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services no later than February 1, 1999 that revises the cost-sharing requirements of the various home care programs funded by the Department of Human Services in a way that would ensure that persons with higher incomes would pay a proportionately higher share of the cost of the home care services they receive.
It is the intent of the Legislature that any rules implementing such a plan take effect no later than July 1, 1999. Rules adopted under this section to implement the plan are major substantive rules in accordance with the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter II-A.
Emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this Act takes effect when approved.
Effective February 18, 1999.
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