‘Resolve, To Require a Study and Report on Changes in the Regional Transportation Systems in Maine’
| SP0371 LD 1089 |
Session - 126th Maine Legislature C "A", Filing Number S-203, Sponsored by
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LR 1757 Item 2 |
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Amend the resolve by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘Resolve, To Require a Study and Report on Changes in the Regional Transportation Systems in Maine’
Amend the resolve by striking out everything after the title and before the summary and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1. Study and report on changes in regional transportation systems in Maine. Resolved: That the Department of Health and Human Services shall convene a working group to study and report on changes in regional transportation systems in Maine. The Commissioner of Health and Human Services shall appoint representatives to the working group from different regions in the State, from the different consumer groups and constituencies that use regional transportation systems, from the department and from community action agencies. The working group shall study the revenues and expenses, utilization, efficiencies and interrelationships of the transportation systems in effect on January 1, 2013 and the systems as they will be altered by the risk-based system that the department is instituting during 2013. The working group shall consider whether the risk-based system will split the regional transportation systems into smaller units or weaken services to residents of urban and rural communities. The department shall report to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services by January 15, 2014 on the results of the study.’
summary
This amendment is the minority report of the committee. The amendment changes the title of the resolve. The amendment directs the Department of Health and Human Services to convene a working group to study and report on changes in regional transportation systems in Maine. The amendment directs the working group to study the revenues and expenses, utilization, efficiencies and interrelationships of the transportation systems in effect on January 1, 2013 and the systems as they will be altered by the risk-based system that the department is instituting during 2013. The amendment also directs the working group to consider whether the risk-based system will split the regional transportation systems into smaller units or weaken services to residents of urban and rural communities and the department to report to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services by January 15, 2014 on the results of the study.