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PUBLIC LAWS OF MAINE
First Regular Session of the 120th

CHAPTER 141
H.P. 714 - L.D. 929

An Act to Amend the Supervised Community Confinement Law

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

     Sec. 1. 34-A MRSA §3036-A, sub-§2, ¶B, as enacted by PL 1991, c. 845, §4, is amended to read:

     Sec. 2. 34-A MRSA §3036-A, sub-§10 is enacted to read:

     10. Terminally ill prisoner. With the consent of the prisoner, the commissioner may permit a prisoner committed to the department to be transferred from a correctional facility to supervised community confinement without meeting the requirements of subsection 2, paragraphs B and C if the facility's treating physician has determined that the prisoner is terminally ill and that care outside the correctional facility for the remainder of the prisoner's illness is medically necessary. The prisoner shall live in a hospital or other appropriate care facility, such as a nursing facility or residential care facility, approved by the commissioner. As approved by the commissioner, the prisoner may receive hospice services from an entity licensed pursuant to Title 22, chapter 1681, subchapter I. The commissioner may exempt a prisoner transferred to supervised community confinement pursuant to this subsection from any mandatory condition under subsection 3 that the commissioner determines to be inapplicable.

Effective September 21, 2001, unless otherwise indicated.

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