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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 63H.P. 27 House of Representatives, January 8, 2025
An Act to Support Implementation of Certified Community
Behavioral Health Clinic Projects
(EMERGENCY)
Submitted by the Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to Joint Rule 204.
Received by the Clerk of the House on January 6, 2025. Referred to the Committee on
Health and Human Services pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to Joint
Rule 401.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative GRAHAM of North Yarmouth. Page 1 - 132LR0266(01)1 acts and resolves of the Legislature do not
2 become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and
3 the Legislature appropriated funds during the 131st Legislature to support
4 certified community behavioral health clinic projects; and
5 since the adjournment of the 131st Legislature, the State was accepted into
6 the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Medicaid Demonstration Program by
7 the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and
8 Medicaid Services, in partnership with the United States Department of Health and Human
9 Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; and
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11 behavioral health clinic projects is needed for state-licensed mental health organizations to
12 establish certified community behavioral health clinics within the federal Medicaid
13 demonstration program and to leverage federal funding for the implementation of a
14 Medicaid prospective payment system model; and
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16 the federal Medicaid demonstration program is critical to strengthening the community
17 mental health system to provide comprehensive and integrated mental health and substance
18 use services that ensure timely access to care, improve accountability and improve the
19 quality of behavioral health services and supports to meet the needs of people in this State;
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21 in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create an emergency within
22 the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and require the following legislation as
23 immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now,
24 therefore,
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27 The State Controller shall transfer the funds
28 appropriated in Public Law 2023, chapter 643, Part A for one-time funding for the start-up
29 and implementation costs for all state-licensed mental health organizations participating in
30 certified community behavioral health clinic projects to the Department of Health and
31 Human Services to a Medicaid account within the Office of MaineCare Services. The
32 department shall use the funding as the Medicaid services state share for state-licensed
33 mental health organizations to initiate participation in the Certified Community Behavioral
34 Health Clinic Medicaid Demonstration Program by the United States Department of Health
35 and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in partnership with the
36 United States Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental
37 Health Services Administration.
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39 takes effect when approved.
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41 This bill requires funding appropriated in Public Law 2023, chapter 643 for certified
42 community behavioral health clinic projects to be used to support the Medicaid services
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43 state share of funds needed for state-licensed mental health organizations to participate in
44 the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Medicaid Demonstration Program by
45 the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and
46 Medicaid Services, in partnership with the United States Department of Health and Human
47 Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
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