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LD258 • 2025

Resolve, to Establish a Program to Recruit and Retain Behavioral Health Clinicians

Resolve, to Establish a Program to Recruit and Retain Behavioral Health Clinicians

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Sponsor
Senator Harold Stewart
Last action
2025-03-27
Official status
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Resolve, to Establish a Program to Recruit and Retain Behavioral Health Clinicians

Resolve, to Establish a Program to Recruit and Retain Behavioral Health Clinicians Sponsor: Senator Harold Stewart Reference committee: Health and Human Services Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

  • Resolve, to Establish a Program to Recruit and Retain Behavioral Health Clinicians Sponsor: Senator Harold Stewart Reference committee: Health and Human Services Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

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Bill History

  1. 2025-03-27 Senate

    Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)

  2. 2025-03-25 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP

  3. 2025-03-19 Committee

    Work Session Held

  4. 2025-03-19 Committee

    Voted; ONTP

  5. 2025-01-23 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services.

  6. House

    None

Official Summary Text

Resolve, to Establish a Program to Recruit and Retain Behavioral Health Clinicians
Sponsor:
Senator Harold Stewart
Reference committee:
Health and Human Services
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 258
S.P. 125 In Senate, January 24, 2025
Resolve, to Establish a Program to Recruit and Retain Behavioral
Health Clinicians
Received by the Secretary of the Senate on January 23, 2025. Referred to the Committee
on Health and Human Services pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator STEWART of Aroostook.
Cosponsored by Senators: BENNETT of Oxford, MARTIN of Oxford, TIMBERLAKE of
Androscoggin, Representative: MORRIS of Turner.

Page 1 - 132LR0824(01)
1Sec. 1. Department of Health and Human Services to develop and
2implement program to provide recruitment and retention incentive to
3behavioral health clinicians. Resolved: That, to support the recruitment and retention
4 of behavioral health clinicians in the State, the Department of Health and Human Services
5 shall develop and implement a program to provide, during fiscal year 2025-26, a $25,000
6 recruitment and retention incentive to those behavioral health clinicians in the State who
7 meet criteria established by the department. The program developed by the department
8 must, at a minimum, require that a behavioral health clinician and an employer sign a
9 written agreement that includes conditions determined by the department for receiving the
10 recruitment and retention incentive. The department shall establish criteria regarding
11 participation in the program, including, but not limited to:
12 1. Eligibility criteria to participate in the program;
13 2. The minimum period of time a behavioral health clinician must agree to be employed
14 by an employer; and
15 3. Conditions under which employment may be terminated by the behavioral health
16 clinician or an employer and any obligations of the behavioral health clinician or an
17 employer if employment is terminated, including the conditions under which the behavioral
18 health clinician is required to repay the recruitment and retention incentive.
19Sec. 2. Report. Resolved: That, by December 3, 2025, the Department of Health
20 and Human Services shall submit a report regarding the recruitment and retention incentive
21 program developed and implemented pursuant to section 1 to the Joint Standing Committee
22 on Health and Human Services.
23SUMMARY
24 This resolve directs the Department of Health and Human Services to develop and
25 implement a program to provide a $25,000 recruitment and retention incentive to
26 behavioral health clinicians in the State during fiscal year 2025-26. It directs the
27 department to establish criteria regarding participation in the program and to submit a
28 report regarding the program to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human
29 Services in 2025.
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