LD1746 - State Budget

(2012)

An Act To Make Supplemental Appropriations and Allocations for the Expenditures of State Govt. and To Change Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operation of State Govt.

Sponsored by Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Rosen (R – Bucksport)

What is the bill?

The state budget for the coming year, June 2012 - June 2013, makes drastic cuts in services to Maine’s working families, elderly, and children. Through cuts to Maine’s Drugs for the Elderly and Medicare Savings Program, it will reduce access to medicine and medical care for more than 5,000 seniors and people with disabilities. It includes major cuts to Head Start early childhood education programs for children, and childcare subsidies affecting as many as 1,800 children whose parents are trying to work and care for them. The cuts also eliminate health care for 7,000 19 and 20-year-olds. The budget also eliminates MaineCare coverage for another 14,500 low income working parents.

What happened?

Bill passed in amended form and signed by the Governor

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