Public Laws

Chapter 240

H.P. 383 - L.D. 499

PART GG

Sec. GG-1. Review of transitioning to a fiscal agent model to improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness; Office of MaineCare Services. The Commissioner of Health and Human Services shall review the current organizational structure, systems and operations of the Office of MaineCare Services to transition Maine’s current management information system model to a model operated by a fiscal agent. To assist with this review, the commissioner shall use staff resources from the Office of MaineCare Services and the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Office of Information Technology. The commissioner is authorized to identify position eliminations and identify Personal Services savings available for transfer to All Other from the improvements identified from the review. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Budget Officer shall transfer position counts and available balances between line categories by financial order upon approval of the Governor in order to achieve the position eliminations identified in section 2. These transfers are considered adjustments to authorized position count, appropriations and allocations in fiscal years 2007-08 and 2008-09. The commissioner and the State Budget Officer shall provide the joint standing committees of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health and human services matters and appropriations and financial affairs a report outlining the progress towards the new organizational structure and any transferred amounts by December 15th and June 15th in each year of the 2008-2009 biennium.

Sec. GG-2. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF (FORMERLY DHS)

Bureau of Medical Services 0129

Initiative: Eliminates 21 General Fund positions and 79 Federal Expenditures Fund positions from projected Office of MaineCare savings.