Bill Summary – FastDemocracy

APPROVED                  CHAPTER
                                                                  MARCH 6, 2024                  136
                                                                 BY GOVERNOR                RESOLVES
                                  STATE OF MAINE
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                           IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
                       TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR
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                                   S.P. 684 - L.D. 1721
Resolve, to Establish a Plan to Provide Transitional Housing and to Support
                      the Growth of Maine's Workforce
   Sec. 1. Office of Policy Innovation and the Future to develop plan for
transitional housing. Resolved: That the Office of Policy Innovation and the Future
shall propose a plan to provide transitional housing for persons seeking federal work
permits and their families based on the model being used in southern Maine, which consists
of leasing a property formerly used as a hotel and contracting with a private nonprofit entity
to provide support services. The plan must include an evaluation of options for purchasing
a similar property, or allocating funds to a nongovernmental entity to purchase a similar
property, to provide transitional housing concurrent with services aimed at supporting entry
into the workforce and an evaluation of the financial impacts upon the State and the
municipality in which the property is located. The plan must identify potential funding
sources, including but not limited to existing state and federal funds. In addition to the
proposed plan, using data collected from the current model used to provide transitional
housing, the Office of Policy Innovation and the Future shall provide information regarding
who is being served by the model, how many enter the workforce, the amount of time those
being served use transitional housing and accompanying services before successfully
entering the workforce and how workforce needs are affected by the model. The Office of
Policy Innovation and the Future shall submit a report containing the proposed plan and
the information required by this section no later than January 15, 2025 to the joint standing
committee or the joint select committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over housing
matters, which is authorized to report out a bill to the 132nd Legislature in 2025.
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Statutes affected: 
Bill Text LD 1721, SP 684: 22.7852