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MaineLD 1497132nd Maine Legislature (2025-2026)HouseWALLET

An Act to Amend the Laws Governing Primary Care Reporting by the Maine Quality Forum and to Establish the Primary Care Advisory Council

Sponsored By: Samuel Zager (Democratic)

Became Law

HEALTH CARE SERVICESHEALTH CARE SERVICES - PLANNING

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Annual report on Maine primary care

The law ends the old primary care reporting rule and replaces it with a new annual report. Beginning January 15, 2026, the Maine Quality Forum must send a report each year to DHHS and the Legislature’s health committees. Each report must cover at least one measure: primary care spending share, primary care use share, workforce capacity, timely access, or preventive and screening metrics. This reporting duty ends January 15, 2031.

Primary Care Advisory Council created

The law creates a Primary Care Advisory Council, staffed by the Maine Quality Forum, through January 15, 2031. Primary care here includes family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, OB/GYN, and geriatrics. The council has 18 members, including primary care clinicians (at least three active; includes a nurse practitioner or physician assistant and a member from a federally qualified health center), payors, an employer, consumers, DHHS, and legislators; the Insurance Superintendent and the Racial, Indigenous and Tribal Populations Commission director serve ex officio. Members (except legislators and ex officio) serve three-year terms and may serve up to two in a row; legislators serve while in office. Initial terms are staggered: four for 1 year, five for 2 years, and five for 3 years. Non‑legislator members may be paid under state board rules. The council must meet at least four times a year, choose a chair for two years, meet in public, and, starting January 15, 2026, send yearly recommendations to DHHS and the Legislature on investment, workforce distribution, timely access, and preventive care.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Samuel Zager

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Amy Arata

    Republican • House

  • Anne-Marie Mastraccio

    Democratic • House

  • Donna Bailey

    Democratic • Senate

  • Richard A. Bennett

    Independent • Senate

  • Richard Bradstreet

    Republican • Senate

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

Actions Timeline

  1. ACTPUB Chapter 218

    5/1/2026

  2. PASSED TO BE ENACTED, in concurrence.

    6/2/2025Senate

  3. PASSED TO BE ENACTED. Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

    5/29/2025House

  4. Report READ and ACCEPTED, in concurrence.READ ONCE.Committee Amendment "A" (H-268) READ and ADOPTED, in concurrence.Under suspension of the Rules, READ A SECOND TIME and PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED AS AMENDED BY Committee Amendment "A" (H-268), in concurrence.Ordered sent down forthwith.

    5/28/2025Senate

  5. CONSENT CALENDAR - FIRST DAYUnder suspension of the rules CONSENT CALENDAR - SECOND DAY.The Bill was PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED as Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (H-268).Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

    5/27/2025House

  6. The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES in concurrence

    4/8/2025Senate

  7. Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services suggested and ordered printed. The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES.Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

    4/8/2025House

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