An Act to Stabilize Residential Treatment Capacity for Children and Youth in Maine
Sponsored By: Lori Gramlich (Democratic)
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
More transparency on children's treatment beds
Beginning October 1, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services must tell the Legislature within two weeks when a children's residential care facility closes. The notice must list the facility name, services, bed and staff counts, why it closed, a de-identified summary of children’s transition plans, and what the department did to try to prevent the closure. By January 1 each year, the department must send an expanded annual report on children’s behavioral health. It must include children waiting in emergency rooms after being cleared, how long they waited, denials by residential providers, and children arriving in emergency rooms from residential settings. It must also show out-of-state placements and state costs (including travel), children in care longer than one year, and the number of facility closures. By December 3, 2025, the department must deliver a full statewide report: changes in beds and programs since 2018, waiting lists with average and median wait times, and how many children are homeless. It must update progress on wraparound, intensive foster care, home and school-based treatment, psychiatric residential treatment facility level of care, the certified community behavioral health clinic Medicaid demonstration, and crisis receiving centers. It must list missing services that keep children in emergency departments after discharge. The department must protect privacy when reporting.
State works to keep kids' beds open
The Department of Health and Human Services must bring together child residential treatment providers to find short- and long-term staffing and resource needs. The department must send findings and recommendations to the Legislature by December 3, 2025. The department also must reach out to residential, inpatient psychiatric, and community providers across Maine. This outreach helps providers address resource needs, avoid closures, and reopen beds for children and youth. The goal is to keep treatment capacity available close to home.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Lori Gramlich
Democratic • House
Cosponsors
Daniel Shagoury
Democratic • House
Flavia DeBrito
Democratic • House
Holly Stover
Democratic • House
Jeffrey L. Timberlake
Republican • Senate
John Ducharme
Republican • House
Kathy Javner
Republican • House
Marianne Moore
Republican • Senate
Michael Brennan
Democratic • House
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
Actions Timeline
ACTPUB Chapter 522
1/11/2026HELD BY THE GOVERNOR.
7/8/2025SenateThis being an emergency measure, a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to the House was necessary.PASSED TO BE ENACTED.Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
6/13/2025HousePASSED TO BE ENACTED - Emergency - 2/3 Elected Required, in concurrence.
6/13/2025SenateReport READ and ACCEPTED, in concurrence.READ ONCE.Committee Amendment "A" (H-674) 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-674), in concurrence.Ordered sent down forthwith.
6/13/2025SenateCONSENT 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-674).Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
6/12/2025HouseThe Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES in concurrence
4/22/2025SenateCommittee on Health and Human Services suggested and ordered printed. The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
4/22/2025House
Bill Text
Amendment C-A (H-674), adopted by House & Senate
Enacted
Introduced
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