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Amend the resolve by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘Resolve, To Direct the Department of Health and Human Services To Study the Ongoing Need for Rental Subsidies to Provider Agencies’
Amend the resolve by striking out all of sections 1 and 2 and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1 Department of Health and Human Services to study issues regarding rental assistance for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Resolved: That the Department of Health and Human Services shall work within available resources with community partners, including the Maine Association for Community Service Providers, to study the issues regarding rental subsidies to determine which MaineCare members receive rental subsidies or qualify for rental subsidies paid to providers, how other states provide rental subsidies to service providers for individuals with intellectual disabilities and within which state and federal guidelines and programs the rental subsidies to service providers for individuals with intellectual disabilities are provided; and be it further
Sec. 2 Department of Health and Human Services to work within existing resources. Resolved: That the Department of Health and Human Services shall collect and use available data from community partners and within the department using available resources; and be it further’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment directs the Department of Health and Human Services to work within available resources with community partners, including the Maine Association for Community Service Providers, to study the issues regarding rental subsidies to determine which MaineCare members receive rental subsidies, how other states provide rental subsidies to service providers for individuals with intellectual disabilities and within which state and federal guidelines and programs the rental subsidies to service providers for individuals with intellectual disabilities are provided. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to collect and use available data within available resources. The requirement to report and the reporting date from the original resolve are unchanged.
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
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