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AUGUSTA -Today, Governor Mills proposed a supplemental budget for Fiscal Year 2021 and a biennial budget for Fiscal Years 2022-2023 that protect the health and wellbeing of Maine people by investing in Maine's COVID-19 response, continuing to rebuild public health infrastructure, and preserving life-saving health care and safety net services.
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) has placed another order for doses of COVID-19 vaccine today, for 17,175 people, to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Operation Warp Speed. This order represents the latest in a series of vaccine requests that Maine CDC will file in the coming weeks and months, as specified by Operation Warp Speed, as part of Maine's accessible, flexible, and equitable distribution plan for the vaccine. Maine CDC's order reflects the maximum number of doses ava...
Entrance to a foreign country often requires a passport. In the age of coronavirus, entrance to schools, concerts, airlines – or anywhere else problematic for social distancing – eventually may involve a medical passport, or at least some sort of vaccination verification. As things stand in Maine, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention is focused on continued rollout of the vaccine rather than providing people with portable proof of having been vaccinated. The Maine Immunization Program issues a card along with the initial shot, primarily as a reminder to get the second dose. Dr. N...
AUGUSTA — Governor Janet Mills submitted Friday to the Legislature a supplemental budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2021 and a biennial budget proposal for Fiscal Years 2022-2023 that focus on maintaining vital services and increasing savings without creating new programs. The budgets are balanced as required by the Constitution and continue efficiencies, good fiscal management and curtailments to cover projected revenue shortfalls for all three fiscal years, according to a news release. The budgets do not change Maine tax rates and do not dip into the Budget Stabilization Fund; in fact the...
Mills' budget proposal aims to strengthen COVID-19 response, cover projected revenue shortfalls without raising taxes The budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2021 and a biennial budget proposal for Fiscal Years 2022-2023 do not change Maine tax rates. Author: Griffin Stockford (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 12:30 PM EST January 8, 2021 Updated: 6:14 PM EST January 8, 2021 AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Janet Mills on Friday submitted to the Maine Legislature a supplemental budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2021 and a biennial budget proposal for Fiscal Years...