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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 764H.P. 494House of Representatives, February 25, 2025
An Act to Improve the Efficiency of Certain Department of Health
and Human Services Licensing Investigations
Submitted by the Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to Joint Rule 204.
Reference to the Committee on Health and Human Services suggested and ordered printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative MEYER of Eliot. Page 1 - 132LR0261(01)
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4 for the department may issue subpoenas requiring persons to disclose or provide to the
5 department information or records in their possession that are necessary and relevant to an
6 investigation of a report of suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation or to a credible
7 allegation of licensure violations, including, but not limited to, health care information that
8 is confidential under section The department may apply to the District Court to
9 enforce a subpoena. A person who complies with a subpoena is immune from civil or
10 criminal liability that might otherwise result from the act of turning over or providing
11 information or records to the department.
12 is enacted to read:
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14 accordance with section 3474.
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17 for the department may issue subpoenas requiring persons to disclose or provide to the
18 department information or records in their possession that are necessary and relevant to an
19 investigation of a report of suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation or to a credible
20 allegation of licensure violations, including, but not limited to, health care information that
21 is confidential under section The department may apply to the District Court to
22 enforce a subpoena. A person who complies with a subpoena is immune from civil or
23 criminal liability that might otherwise result from the act of turning over or providing
24 information or records to the department.
25 is enacted to read:
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27 accordance with section 3474.
28 is enacted to read:
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30 for the department may issue subpoenas requiring persons to disclose or provide to the
31 department information or records in their possession that are necessary and relevant to an
32 investigation of a report of suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation or to a credible
33 allegation of licensure violations, including, but not limited to, health care information that
34 is confidential under section The department may apply to the District Court to
35 enforce a subpoena. A person who complies with a subpoena is immune from civil or
36 criminal liability that might otherwise result from the act of turning over or providing
37 information or records to the department.
38 is enacted to read:
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40 accordance with section 3474. Page 2 - 132LR0261(01)
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2 This bill grants the Commissioner of Health and Human Services, the commissioner's
3 delegate or the legal counsel for the Department of Health and Human Services the ability
4 to issue a subpoena to obtain records and testimony relevant to a licensure violation
5 investigation. This is consistent with authority already established in accordance with the
6 Adult Protective Services Act and with other professional licensure boards.
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