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Amend the resolve by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘Resolve, To Ensure Appropriate Personal Needs Allowances for Persons Residing in Nursing Facilities’
Amend the resolve by striking out everything after the title and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1 Personal needs allowance for residents of nursing facilities. Resolved: That, by January 1, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services shall amend rule Chapter 332: MaineCare Eligibility Manual to increase the personal needs allowance for persons residing in nursing facilities. The rules must provide for an increase in the personal needs allowance from $40 per month to $50 per month. Rules adopted pursuant to this section are routine technical rules as defined in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.
Sec. 2 Appropriations and allocations. Resolved: That the following appropriations and allocations are made.
 
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF
 
Nursing Facilities 0148
 
Initiative: Appropriates and allocates funds to increase the personal needs allowances of residents in nursing facilities from $40 to $50.

GENERAL FUND	2019-20	2020-21	
All Other	$97,002	$194,003	
			
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$97,002	$194,003	

FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND	2019-20	2020-21	
All Other	$170,958	$341,917	
			
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOTAL	$170,958	$341,917	
 
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Amend the resolve by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section number to read consecutively.
 
SUMMARY
This amendment increases the personal needs allowance for residents of nursing facilities to $50 rather than the $70 required in the resolve. It removes the section of the resolve that increases the personal needs allowance for residents of residential care facilities. The amendment also specifies the rule chapter of the Department of Health and Human Services that is changed, changes the title of the resolve and adds an appropriations and allocations section.
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
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