LD49 • 2025

An Act to Ensure Quality in Personal Care Agencies

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Sponsor: Representative Kristen Cloutier
Last action: 2025-02-11
Official status: Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act to Ensure Quality in Personal Care Agencies

An Act to Ensure Quality in Personal Care Agencies Sponsor: Representative Kristen Cloutier Reference committee: Health and Human Services Latest committee action: Reported Out; LTW

What This Bill Does

An Act to Ensure Quality in Personal Care Agencies Sponsor: Representative Kristen Cloutier Reference committee: Health and Human Services Latest committee action: Reported Out; LTW

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Bill History

2025-02-11 Senate
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
2025-02-05 Committee
LTW Approved by Chairs; LTW
2025-02-05 Committee
Reported Out; LTW
2025-01-06 House
Received by the Clerk of the House on January 6, 2025. The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to Joint Rule 401.
2025-01-06 Committee
Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Ensure Quality in Personal Care Agencies
Sponsor:
Representative Kristen Cloutier
Reference committee:
Health and Human Services
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; LTW

Current Bill Text

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Printed on recycled paper
132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 49
H.P. 13 House of Representatives, January 8, 2025
An Act to Ensure Quality in Personal Care Agencies
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 CLOUTIER of Lewiston.

Page 1 - 132LR0262(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §1717, sub-§2-B, ¶B, as enacted by PL 2023, c. 309, §6, is
3 amended to read:
4 B. Quality measures performance metrics established in accordance with subsection
5 2-F;
6Sec. 2. 22 MRSA §1717, sub-§2-F is enacted to read:
72-F. Quality performance metrics for personal care agencies. The department shall
8 establish by rule and post on a publicly accessible website annual quality performance
9 metrics for personal care agencies. The department may revoke the license of a personal
10 care agency that fails to timely or adequately satisfy the quality performance metrics
11 established by the department or file reports required by the department. To determine if
12 a personal care agency meets the quality performance metrics established by the
13 department, the department may collect data relating to the personal care agency, including,
14 but not limited to, claims data, performance data and survey data. Rules adopted pursuant
15 to this subsection are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter
16 2-A.
17SUMMARY
18 This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services to establish by rule and
19 post on a publicly accessible website annual quality performance metrics for personal care
20 agencies. It authorizes the department to revoke the license of a personal care agency that
21 fails to timely or adequately satisfy the metrics or file reports required by the department.
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