An Act To Ensure the Continued Ability of the Maine Economic Growth Council To Produce the Measures of Growth Report
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 1946
Senate Amendment SA_A_S693 (Senate)

SENATE AMENDMENT '14 to S.P. 744, L.D. 1946, Bill, "An Act To Ensure the 
Continued Ability of the Maine Economic Growth Council To Produce the Measures of 
Growth Report " 
Amend the bill by striking out all of the title and substituting the following: 
'An Act To Ensure the Continued Ability ofthe Maine Economic Growth 
Council To Produce the Measures of Growth Report and Provide Financial 
Assistance for Flood Damage' 
Further amend the bill by striking out all of section 1 and inserting in its place the 
following: 
'Sec. 1. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and 
allocations are made. 
BAXTER COMPENSATION AUTHORITY 
"Baxter Compensation Authority 0117 
Initiative: Deappropriates operational funds that are no longer necessary. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
2005-06 
($400,000) 
2006-07 
$0 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
BAXTER COMPENSATION AUTHORITY 
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 
GENERAL FUND 
($400,000) 
2005-06 
($400,000) 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
$0 
2006-07 
$0 
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SENATE AMENDMENT ·A" to S.P. 744, L.D. 1946 
DEPARTMENT TOTAL - ALL FUNDS 
($400,000) 
$0 
DEFENSE, VETERANS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT 
OF 
Administration - Maine Emergency Management Agency 0214 
Initiative: Appropriates funds to assist certain municipalities with the State's share of 
costs resulting from floods that occurred in the spring of 2005. 
GENERAL FUND 
2005-06 
All Other 
$0 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
$0 
DEFENSE, VETERANS AND EMERGENCY 
MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF 
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 
2005-06 
GENERAL FUND 
($0) 
DEPARTMENT TOTAL - ALL FUNDS 
($0) 
ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, DEPARTMENT OF 
Maine Economic Growth Council 0727 
2006-07 
$880,000 
$880,000 
2006-07 
$880,000 
$880,000 
Initiative: Provides funding for the printing of the Measures of Growth Report to be 
matched on at least a dollar-for-dollar basis from private funding sources. 
GENERAL FUND 
2005-06 
2006-07 
All Other 
$0 
$20,000 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
$0 
$20,000 
ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, 
DEPARTMENT OF 
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 
2005-06 
2006-07 
GENERAL FUND 
$0 
$20,000 
DEPARTMENT TOTAL - ALL FUNDS 
$0 
$20,000 
PUBLIC SAFETY, DEPARTMENT OF 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
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Gambling Control Board Z002 
Initiative: Deappropriated operating funds that are no longer needed. 
GENERAL FUND 
2005-06 
2006-07 
All Other 
($250,000) 
$0 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
($250,000) 
$0 
PUBLIC SAFETY, DEPARTMENT OF 
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 
2005-06 
2006-07 
GENERAL FUND 
($250,000) 
$0 
DEPARTMENT TOTAL-ALL FUNDS 
($250,000) 
$0 
SECTION TOTALS 
2005-06 
2006-07 
GENERAL FUND 
($650,000) 
$900,000 
SECTION TOTAL - ALL FUNDS 
($650,000) 
$900,000 
SUMMARY 
This amendment: 
1. Reduces the appropriation to the Maine Economic Growth Council from $100,000 
to $20,000; 
2. Appropriates funds to assist certain municipalities that suffered flood damage that 
occurred in spring 2005; and 
3. Deappropriates funds from the Baxter Compensation Authority and the Gambling 
Control Board. 
SPONSORED BY: ---iJ'--"--h'"-ff---tf-----"<.------!.--..:;,;"'-
(Senator ROTUN 
COUNTY: Androscoggin 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 05/23/06 ~ae 
LD 1946 
LR 2748(08) 
An Act To Ensure the Continued Ability of the Maine Economic Growth Council To Produce the 
Measures of Growth Report 
Fiscal Note for Senate Amendment ,~" 
Sponsor: Sen. Rotundo 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Projections 
Projections 
2005-06 
2006-07 
2007-08 
2008-09 
Net Cost (Savings) 
General Fund 
($650,000) 
$800,000 
$0 
$0 
Appropriations! Allocations 
General Fund 
($650,000) 
$800,000 
$0 
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Fiscal Detail and Notes 
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This amendment deletes the one-time appropriation of $100,000 in fiscal year 2006-07 and replaces it with a one-time 
General Fund appropriation of $20,000 in fiscal year 2006-07 to the Department of Economic and Community 
Development for the printing costs of the Measures of Growth Report. The amendment also includes General Fund 
deappropriations of $400,000 from the Baxter Compensation Authority and $250,000 from the Gambling Control 
Board in fiscal year 2005-06. Finally, the amendment appropriates $880,000 to the Administration - Maine Emergency 
Management Agency program within the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management in fiscal year 
2006-07 to provide financial assistance to certain municipalities for flood damage that occurred in the spring of 2005. 
The figures provided in the above table reflect the incremental effect of these changes relative to the original bill. 
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