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An Act to Enhance Support Services for Individuals with an Acquired Brain Injury

An Act to Enhance Support Services for Individuals with an Acquired Brain Injury

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Representative Allison Hepler
Last action
2025-06-10
Official status
Signed by the Governor
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act to Enhance Support Services for Individuals with an Acquired Brain Injury

An Act to Enhance Support Services for Individuals with an Acquired Brain Injury Sponsor: Representative Allison Hepler Reference committee: Health and Human Services Governor action: Signed by the Governor

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Enhance Support Services for Individuals with an Acquired Brain Injury Sponsor: Representative Allison Hepler Reference committee: Health and Human Services Governor action: Signed by the Governor

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Adopted by House & Senate

Plain English: Page 1 - 132LR1749(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

  • Page 1 - 132LR1749(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
  • 623 2 Date: (Filing No.
  • H- ) 3HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 4 Reproduced and distributed under the direction of the Clerk of the House.
  • 5STATE OF MAINE 6HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 7132ND LEGISLATURE 8FIRST SPECIAL SESSION 9 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT “ ” to H.P.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-10 Governor

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-06-03 House

    PASSED TO BE ENACTED . Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  3. 2025-06-03 Senate

    PASSED TO BE ENACTED , in concurrence.

  4. 2025-06-02 Committee

    Reported Out; OTP-AM

  5. 2025-04-10 Committee

    Work Session Held

  6. 2025-04-10 Committee

    Voted; OTP-AM

  7. 2025-02-20 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Enhance Support Services for Individuals with an Acquired Brain Injury
Sponsor:
Representative Allison Hepler
Reference committee:
Health and Human Services
Governor action:
Signed by the Governor

Current Bill Text

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Page 1 - 132LR1749(03)
STATE OF MAINE
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE
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H.P. 391 - L.D. 623
An Act to Enhance Support Services for Individuals with an Acquired Brain
Injury
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §3088-A, as enacted by PL 2019, c. 488, §1, is amended to read:
§3088-A. Support for underserved populations
Within the limits of its available resources, the department may enter into contracts
with dedicated brain injury organizations based in the State or with brain injury
organizations representing individuals with a brain injury and their families, bringing
together with an affiliate in the State established and directed by families, caregivers and
individuals with an acquired brain injury residing in the State, to collaborate with the
department on federal brain injury state partnership grants and bring together state and
national expertise to provide core brain injury support for underserved populations of
individuals with an acquired brain injury, including, but not limited to, individuals who
experienced an opioid drug overdose resulting in anoxic or hypoxic brain injury, who are
veterans, who are victims of domestic violence, who are experiencing homelessness, who
are ineligible for MaineCare and who have a newly acquired brain injury. For the purposes
of this section, "core brain injury support" includes, but is not limited to, resource
facilitation, brain injury support groups, outreach designed for individuals who have a
newly acquired brain injury, access to a joint state and national helpline, access to an online
brain injury screening and support system, information and resource education and family
caregiver training. The department may adopt rules to implement this section. Rules
adopted pursuant to this section are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter
375, subchapter 2‑A.
APPROVED
JUNE 10, 2025
BY GOVERNOR
CHAPTER
233
PUBLIC LAW