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House passes emergency measure to support certified community behavioral health clinics
Summary
The Maine House voted to enact an emergency bill to support certified community behavioral health clinic projects; the chamber's presiding officer announced the measure passed and will be sent to the Senate.
The House of Representatives passed an emergency measure to support certified community behavioral health clinic projects, the chamber's presiding officer announced.
The measure (House Paper 27, LD 63) was presented to the House as an emergency enactment. After a yea/no vote, the chair announced that the bill "has been passed to be enacted as an emergency measure. It will be signed by the speaker and sent to the Senate." The chair then opened and closed the vote and stated the constitutional two-thirds requirement was met for emergency enactment.
Why it matters: The bill authorizes immediate enactment of measures to implement certified community behavioral health clinic projects, allowing state action to move forward without the usual waiting period that applies to non-emergency laws.
Details and procedure: The clerk read the engrossed bill as "truly and strictly engrossed" before the vote. Because the bill was presented and passed as an emergency measure, the chair explained that the Constitution requires an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the House's entire elected membership. The chair announced the measure passed under those terms and that it would be signed and transmitted to the Senate for its action.
What the House said: The chair stated on the floor that the bill "has been passed to be enacted as an emergency measure. It will be signed by the speaker and sent to the Senate." No recorded roll-call tally for individual members was given in the transcript; the chair announced that the constitutional threshold had been met.
Next steps: The chair indicated the speaker will sign the engrossed bill and transmit it to the Senate for consideration. The transcript does not record further debate about the bill's specific programmatic funding or implementation details during this session.
Provenance: The clerk's and chair's readout and the vote appear in the House transcript at the committee report and enactment sequence for the emergency measure (House Paper 27, LD 63).
