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4, paragraph C, the department shall reimburse the municipality for | | 100% of those payments as limited by that paragraph. When a | | municipality pays for expenses approved pursuant to section 4313 | | for hospital inpatient or outpatient care at any hospital on behalf | | of any person who is otherwise eligible and who would have been | | entitled to receive payments for hospital care if that care had | | been rendered prior to May 1, 1984, for services under the | | Catastrophic Illness Program, section 3185, the department shall | | reimburse the municipality for 100% of those payments. |
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| | | Sec. 6. 22 MRSA §4311, sub-§1-B, as amended by PL 1991, c. 9, Pt. U, | | §8, is further amended to read: |
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| | | 1-B. Reimbursement for administrative expenses. The | | department shall reimburse each municipality for the costs of a | | portion of the direct costs of paying benefits through its | | general assistance program if the department finds that the | | municipality was in compliance with all requirements of this | | chapter during the fiscal year for which reimbursement is sought. | | The amount of reimbursement to each municipality must be an | | amount equal to: |
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| | | A. Fifty percent of all general assistance granted by that | | municipality below the .0003% of all state valuation amount | | less any net general assistance costs with respect to which | | the municipality is entitled to 100% reimbursement; or |
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| | | B. Ten percent of all general assistance granted less any | | net general assistance costs with respect to which the | | municipality is entitled to 100% reimbursement. |
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| | | Each municipality shall elect to be reimbursed under paragraph A | | or B at the beginning of the fiscal year for which reimbursement | | is sought. |
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| | | Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this subsection takes | | effect on July 1, 1989. |
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| | | Under current law, when a person in a homeless shelter applies | | for general assistance, there is a certain level of fact-finding | | that has to occur to determine which municipality is | | administratively and financially responsible for that person's | | general assistance. This bill makes the municipality where the | | shelter is located the municipality of administrative | | responsibility and requires the Department of Human Services to | | reimburse that municipality for 100% of the general assistance | | issued to the local homeless shelter. The department's | | responsibility to provide 100% reimbursement is limited to the | | recipient's first 45 consecutive days in the institution. The |
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