This bill requires health care facilities and health care practitioners that receive state funding for the provision of health care to patients to pay to their employees a livable wage beginning January 1, 2004. This bill repeals provisions of Resolve 1997, chapter 36 that require the State Planning Office to submit an annual report to the Legislature on a basic needs budget and reenacts those provisions in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5. The bill requires the State Planning Office to calculate a livable wage based on the basic needs budget.