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LD637 • 2025

Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to Evaluate the Municipal General Assistance Program Database

Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to Evaluate the Municipal General Assistance Program Database

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Sponsor
Representative Rachel Henderson
Last action
2025-05-22
Official status
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date
Not listed

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Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to Evaluate the Municipal General Assistance Program Database

Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to Evaluate the Municipal General Assistance Program Database Sponsor: Representative Rachel Henderson Reference committee: Health and Human Services Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

  • Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to Evaluate the Municipal General Assistance Program Database Sponsor: Representative Rachel Henderson Reference committee: Health and Human Services Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

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Bill History

  1. 2025-05-22 Senate

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

  2. 2025-05-21 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP

  3. 2025-05-15 Committee

    Work Session Reconsidered

  4. 2025-05-15 Committee

    Voted; ONTP

  5. 2025-04-24 Committee

    Work Session Held

  6. 2025-04-24 Committee

    Voted; OTP-AM

  7. 2025-03-21 House

    Carried over, in the same posture, to the next special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 519.

  8. 2025-02-20 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services.

Official Summary Text

Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to Evaluate the Municipal General Assistance Program Database
Sponsor:
Representative Rachel Henderson
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. 637
H.P. 405 House of Representatives, February 25, 2025
Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to
Evaluate the Municipal General Assistance Program Database
Received by the Clerk of the House on February 20, 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 HENDERSON of Rumford.
Cosponsored by Representatives: COLLINS of Sidney, DAIGLE of Fort Kent, HAGGAN of
Hampden, LYMAN of Livermore Falls, QUINT of Hodgdon.

Page 1 - 132LR1206(01)
1Sec. 1. Department of Health and Human Services to evaluate municipal
2general assistance program database. Resolved: That the Department of Health and
3 Human Services shall evaluate the feasibility of upgrading the database for the general
4 assistance program under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 22, section 4323, subsection 6
5 to allow the determination of whether a general assistance program applicant who is
6 disqualified is seeking assistance in another municipality. If the department determines that
7 the current database cannot be upgraded, the department shall research a suitable
8 replacement database that fulfills the criterion in this section.
9Sec. 2. Report. Resolved: That, by December 3, 2025, the Department of Health
10 and Human Services shall issue a report on the evaluation required in section 1 that includes
11 a timeline for implementation of the upgrade or new database. The department shall issue
12 the report to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services, which may
13 report out a bill based upon the report to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd
14 Legislature.
15SUMMARY
16 This resolve directs the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a report to
17 the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services on an evaluation of the
18 feasibility of upgrading the database for the municipal general assistance program to allow
19 the determination of whether a disqualified applicant is seeking assistance in another
20 municipality. If the department determines that the current database cannot be upgraded,
21 the department is to research a suitable replacement database that fulfills the criterion. The
22 department is directed to provide the committee a timeline for implementation of the
23 upgrade or new database.
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