PART A

Sec. A-1. 22 MRSA §3174-CC is enacted to read:

§3174-CC.__Medicaid eligibility during incarceration

The department shall establish procedures to ensure that a person receiving federally approved Medicaid services prior to incarceration does not lose Medicaid eligibility as a result of that incarceration, even if Medicaid coverage is limited or suspended during the period of incarceration.__Nothing in this section requires or permits the department to maintain an incarcerated person's Medicaid eligibility if the person no longer meets eligibility requirements or refuses coverage.

PART B

Sec. B-1. Improvement of access to inpatient beds. The Commissioner of Behavioral and Developmental Services shall develop memorandums of agreement with the Department of Corrections and county jail administrators to establish procedures and policies that improve access to inpatient beds at a state mental health institution for people with mental illness transferred from the Department of Corrections or county jails.

PART C

Sec. C-1. 15 MRSA §2211-A, sub-§10 is enacted to read:

10.__Reincarceration planning.__For each person hospitalized pursuant to this section, the Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services, in consultation with the sheriff or other person responsible for the local or county correctional facility and before the person is transferred back to the correctional facility, shall develop a written treatment plan describing the treatment to be provided to the person during the remainder of that person's incarceration.

Sec. C-2. 34-A MRSA §3069, sub-§3 is enacted to read:

3.__Reincarceration planning.__For each person hospitalized pursuant to this section, the Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services, in consultation with the chief administrative officer of the correctional or detention facility and before the person is transferred back to the correctional or detention facility, shall develop a written treatment plan