130th MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2021
Legislative Document No. 503
H.P. 366 House of Representatives, February 19, 2021
Resolve, To Help Children in Therapeutic Foster Care Move toward
Adoption
Received by the Clerk of the House on February 17, 2021. 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 KINNEY of Knox.
Printed on recycled paper
 1 Sec. 1. Department of Health and Human Services to increase the amount
2 of adoption assistance. Resolved: That no later than October 1, 2021, the Department
3 of Health and Human Services shall amend its rules in 10-148, Chapter 13 to require that
4 an adoptive family receive the same level of financial assistance for long-term or limited-
5 period adoption assistance as the family received when the child was in treatment-level
6 foster care. The department shall increase the amount of its long-term adoption assistance
7 and limited-period adoption assistance to equal the reimbursement rates provided in 10-
8 148, Chapter 14 for a child who has been assessed to require a treatment level of foster care
9 at level C, D or E. Rules adopted pursuant to this section are routine technical rules as
10 defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.
11 SUMMARY
12 This resolve directs the Department of Health and Human Services to require that an
13 adoptive family receive the same level of financial assistance for long-term or limited-
14 period adoption assistance as the family received when the child was in treatment-level
15 foster care.
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