An Act to Make Supplemental Appropriations and Allocations for the Expenditures of State Government and to Change Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2004 and June 30, 2005 LR2833(54)
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 1919
Committee Amendment CA_A-SA_O_S538 (Senate)

SENATE 
AMENDMENT "0,, to COMMITTEE 
AMENDMENT 
"A" to H. P . 
1420, 
L.D. 
1919, 
Bill, 
"An 
Act 
To 
Make 
Supplemental 
Appropriations 
and Allocations for the Expenditures of State 
Government and To Change Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary 
to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years 
Ending June 30, 2004 and June 30, 2005" 
Amend 
the amendment by inserting at the end before the 
emergency clause the following: 
'PARTFFFF 
Sec. FFFF -1. Transfer of funds. 
Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, the State Controller shall transfer $4,750,000 
from the Bureau of Insurance, Other Special Revenue Funds account 
in the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation to the 
unappropriated 
surplus 
of 
the 
General 
Fund 
no 
later 
than 
September 1, 2004. 
Sec. FFFF -2. 
Appropriations and allocations. 
appropriations and allocations are made. 
BAXTER COMPEIISATIOH AUTHORITY 
Baxter Compensation Authority 
0117 
The 
following 
Ini tiative: 
Provides one-time funds to be used for payment of 
compensation to former students who were victims of abuse at the 
Governor Baxter School for the Deaf or its predecessors. 
General Fund 
All Other 
General Fund Total 
2003-04 
$0 
$0 
2004-05 
$4,000,000 
$4,000,000 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
SENATE AMENDMENT "0" to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to H.P. 1420, 
L.D. 1919 
PARTGGGG 
Sec. GGGG-l. Appropriations and allocations. 
appropriations and allocations are made. 
The 
following 
AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND RURAL RESOURCES, 
DEPARTMENT OF 
Office of the Commissioner 
0401 
Initiative: 
potatoes 
at 
prevention of 
Appropriates one-time 
the 
rate 
of 
$1.50 
potato blight. 
funds 
for 
the purchase 
per 
hundredweight 
for 
of 
the 
General Fund 
All Other 
General Fund Total 
Further amend 
any 
nonconsecutive 
consecutively. 
the amendment 
Part 
letter 
by 
or 
SUMMARY 
2003-04 
$0 
$0 
2004-05 
$750,000 
$750,000' 
relettering or renumbering 
section 
number 
to 
read 
This 
amendment 
transfers 
$4,750,000 
from 
the 
Bureau 
of 
Insurance, Other Special Revenue Funds account in the Department 
of Professional and Financial Regulation to the unappropriated 
surplus of the General Fund no later than September 1, 2004. 
This 
amendment 
also 
provides 
a 
one-time 
General 
Fund 
appropriation of $4,000,000 in fiscal year 2004-05 for the Baxter 
Compensation Authority to be used for payment of compensation to 
former students who were victims of abuse at the Governor Baxter 
School for the Deaf or its predecessor. 
This amendment 
Agriculture, 
Food 
appropriates $750,000 
and 
Rural 
Resources 
to 
for 
the Department 
the 
purchase 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
of 
of 
SENATE AMENDMENT "0" to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to H.P. 1420, 
L.D. 1919 
potatoes 
at 
the 
rate 
of 
$1.50 
per 
hundredweight 
for 
the 
prevention of potato blight. 
SPONSORED BY: 
(Senator MARTIN) 
COUNTY: 
Aroostook 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
ee attached) 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
Net Cost (Savings) 
General Fund 
Appropriations! Allocations 
General Fund 
Transfers 
General Fund 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Approved: 04/16/04 ~ae 
Office of Fiscal and Program Review 
LD 1919 
An Act to Make Supplemental Appropriations and Allocations for the 
Expenditures of State Government and to Change Certain Provisions of 
the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the 
Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2004 and June 30, 2005 
LR2833(54) 
Fiscal Note for Senate Amendment 'bIt to Committee Amendment" A" 
Sponsor: Sen. Martin 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
2003-04 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
2004-05 
$0 
$4,750,000 
$4,750,000 
($4,750,000) 
This amendment will have no net effect on General Fund appropriations and revenue and a balanced budget is 
maintained for the 2004-2005 biennium. 
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