An Act To Establish the Administrative Operating Budget for the Maine State Retirement System for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30,
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 1719
Committee: Labor

Legislative Document 
No. 1719 
H.P.1226 
House of Representatives, December 20,2005 
An Act To Establish the Administrative Operating Budget for the 
Maine State Retirement System for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 
2007 
(EMERGENCY) 
Reported by Representative SMITH of Van Buren for the Maine State Retirement System 
pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section l7103, subsection 13. 
Received by the Clerk of the House on December 14, 2005. Referred to the Committee on 
Labor pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to Joint Rule 218. 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Emergency preamble. Whereas. acts of the Legislature do not 
become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted 
as emergencies; and 
Whereas, the 90-day period may not terminate until after the 
beginning of the next fiscal year; and 
Whereas, certain obligations and expenses incident to the 
operation of the Maine State Retirement System will become due 
and payable before the 90-day period may terminate; and 
Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts 
create an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution of 
Maine 
and 
require 
the 
following 
legislation 
as 
immediately 
necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and 
safety; now, therefore, 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. Allocation of funds. 
Administrative operating expenses 
of the Maine State Retirement System for the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 
2007 must be paid from the system's Expense Fund in 
accordance with the following schedule. 
MAINE STATE RETIREMENT SYSTEM 
Personal Services 
All Other 
MAINE STATE RETIREMENT SYSTEM 
TOTAL ALLOCATIONS 
2006-07 
$7,560,252 
3,398,057 
$10,958,309 
Sec. 2. Attribution of costs. 
The expenses identified in section 
are attributed as follows. 
2006-07 
MAINE STATE RETIREMENT SYSTEM 
General Fund 
Non-General Fund 
Participating Local District and Other 
MAINE STATE RETIREMENT SYSTEM 
TOTAL ATTRIBUTIONS 
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$7,421, 590 
1,624,625 
1, 912,094 
$10,958,309 
Sec. 3. Transfers of allocations; year-end balances. 
Transfers of 
allocations and carry-forwards of unexpended balances must be 
carried out in accordance with the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 
5, section 17103, subsection 13. 
Sec. 
4. 
Collective 
bargaining 
agreements 
approval. 
The 
allocations made in section 1 of this Act and the attributions 
made in section 2 of this Act include the amounts required to 
fund the collective bargaining agreements approved in Private and 
Special Law 2003, chapter 34, which are effective until October 
31, 2006. 
Sec. 5. 
Technology replacement approval. 
Of 
the 
amount 
authorized to be expended in section 1 of this Act, $200,000 is a 
new 
expenditure 
request 
towards 
the 
cost 
of 
a 
complete 
line-of-business 
automated 
system 
that 
includes 
wi thin 
it 
replacing the current benefits payroll technology, 
which will 
become unsupported and obsolete on December 31, 2006. 
Sec. 6. 
Authorization 
to 
expend 
retirement 
system 
reserve 
administrative operating funds. 
Of 
the 
amount 
authorized to 
be 
expended in section 1 of this Act for the administrative and 
operating costs of the retirement system, $400,000 of this amount 
must be provided from the system's Administrative Expense Fund 
established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section 17301. 
Emergency clause. 
In view of the emergency cited in the 
preamble, this Act takes effect July 1, 2006. 
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SUMMARY 
The Maine State Retirement System is required by statute to 
present its 
annual 
operating 
budget 
to 
the 
Legislature 
for 
approval. 
Thi s bi 11 is the sys tem 's 13 th annual budget. 
It is 
for fiscal year 2006-07. 
This 
bill 
identifies 
the 
retirement 
system's 
personal 
services costs and its costs for all other operating expenses. 
For information purposes, the bill presents the attribution 
of 
expenses 
to 
the 
retirement 
system 
member 
and 
employer 
categories: 
General 
Fund; 
Non-General 
Fund; 
and Participating 
Local District. 
This bill requests $200,000 to continue the funding of a 
complete line-of-business computer system, including replacement 
of aging and failing benefits payroll technology.