Resolve, Directing the Cumberland County Commissioners To Establish a Task Force To Establish New County Commissioner Districts
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 1728
Committee Amendment CA_A_H840 (House)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT '-A" to H.P. 1236, L.D. 1728, "Resolve, Directing the 
Cumberland County Commissioners To Establish a Task Force To Establish New County 
Commissioner Districts" 
Amend the resolve by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'Resolve, Establishing an Apportionment Commission To Develop New 
Cumberland County Commissioner Districts' 
Further amend the resolve by striking out everything after the title and before the 
summary and inserting in its place the following: 
'Mandate preamble. 
This measure requires one or more local units of 
government to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures 
from local revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. 
Pursuant to the Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, 2/3 of all of the members 
elected to each House have determined it necessary to enact this measure. 
Sec. 1. Apportionment commission. Resolved: That, notwithstanding the 
Maine Revised Statutes, Title 30-A, section 61, the Legislature shall establish an 
apportionment commission, referred to in this resolve as "the commission," in accordance 
with the procedure established in the Constitution of Maine, Article IV, Part Third, 
Section I-A to apportion the Cumberland County commissioner districts to increase the 
number of county commissioner districts in Cumberland County. The commission shall 
develop 2 plans, one that increases the number of county commissioner districts from 3 to 
and one that increases the number of districts from 3 to 7. The commission shall 
include in its apportionment plans the initial terms of office for each commissioner 
district. The plan to increase the number of districts to 5 must designate 2 commissioner 
districts that have 2-year initial terms and 3 commissioner districts that have 4-year initial 
terms. The plan to increase the number of districts to 7 must designate 3 commissioner 
districts that have 2-year initial terms and 4 commissioner districts that have 4-year initial 
terms. All subsequent terms under both plans are for 4 years. The commission shall 
conduct the reapportionment according to the process established in Title 30-A, section 
65, subsection 1, paragraphs A and B; and be it further 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to H.P. 1236, L.D. 1728 
Sec. 2. 
County referendum. 
Resolved: 
That the Cumberland County 
commissioners shall submit the 2 plans under section 1 to the voters of Cumberland 
County at the June 2007 election. The plan receiving the higher number of votes must be 
submitted by the commission to the Clerk of the House of Representatives no later than 
January 15,2008 for enactment by the Second Regular Session of the 123rd Legislature; 
and be it further 
Sec. 3. Election of county commissioners. Resolved: That the election of 
Cumberland County commissioners in the reapportioned districts approved pursuant to 
section 2 must take place on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2008.' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment replaces the resolve. It establishes an apportionment commission 
under the constitutional procedure for establishing an apportionment commission to 
apportion the districts of the Legislature. The commission is required to develop 2 plans 
to increase the number of Cumberland County commissioners from 3 districts to 5 or 7 
districts. The voters of Cumberland County are to choose between the 2 plans at a 
referendum held at the June 2007 election. The reapportionment plan chosen by the 
voters must be submitted to the Legislature for its approval. Election of Cumberland 
County commissioners in the reapportioned districts must take place at the November 
2008 election. 
FISCAL :\OTE H.I::VLlRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
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Approved: 03/13/06 ;tvac::.. 
LD 1728 
LR 2514(02) 
Resolve, Directing the Cumberland County Commissioners to Establish a Task Force to Establish New 
County Commissioner Districts 
State Mandate 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment '/1" 
Committee: State and Local Government 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Exempted State Mandate 
New or Expanded Activity 
Unit Affected 
Requiring the Cumberland County Commissioners to establish new county 
County 
commissioner districts is a state mandate pursuant to the Maine Constitution. Costs 
to develop and submit plans to increase districts to referendum and related 
expenditures to implement this requirement will be incurred by the county. Pursuant 
to the Mandate Preamble, the two-thirds vote of all members elected to each House 
exempts the state from the constitutional requirement to fund 90% of the additional 
local costs. 
LR2514(2) - Fiscal Note - Page 1 of 1 
Costs 
Significant