Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that appropriates $11.3 billion in funding for the Fiscal Year 2025-2027 budget in Maine.

Highlights:

• Appropriates $11.3 billion in funding for the Fiscal Year 2025-2027 budget in Maine for the following, including, but not limited to (Pt. A-TT):

• $118 million MaineCare cap for the following year;

• $2 million to fight spruce budworm infestations;

• 1.95% cost-of-living adjustment for direct care workers and maintains free community college for Maine high school students graduating this year; and

• An Annual 3.25% tax on acute care hospitals.

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill shall take effect immediately upon passage and approval by the Governor and shall apply retroactively to the end of fiscal year 2024-2025 (Pt. TT).

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that appropriates $11.3 billion in funding for the Fiscal Year 2025-2027 budget in Maine.

Highlights:

• Appropriates $11.3 billion in funding for the Fiscal Year 2025-2027 budget in Maine for the following, including, but not limited to (Pt. A-TT):

• $118 million MaineCare cap for the following year;

• $2 million to fight spruce budworm infestations;

• 1.95% cost-of-living adjustment for direct care workers and maintains free community college for Maine high school students graduating this year; and

• An Annual 3.25% tax on acute care hospitals.

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill shall take effect immediately upon passage and approval by the Governor and shall apply retroactively to the end of fiscal year 2024-2025 (Pt. TT).

Full Bill Text