Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 2055
Committee Amendment CA_A-HA_C_H1102 (House)
Amends: 30-A MRSA §706-A

HOUSE 
AMENDMENT "C-, to COMMITTEE 
AMENDMENT 
"A" 
to H.P. 
L.D. 
2055, 
Bill, 
"An 
Act 
To 
Correct 
Errors 
and 
Inconsistencies in the Laws of Maine" 
Amend the amendment by adding after Part E the following: 
'PARTF 
Sec. F-l. 30-A MRSA §706-A, sub-§4, as enacted by PL 2005, c. 
2, Pt. B, §1 and affected by §§2 and 4 and 
c. 12, Pt. WW, 
§14, 
is amended to read: 
4. 
Adjustment 
for 
new 
state 
funding. 
If 
the 
State 
provides net new funding to a county for existing services funded 
in whole or in part by the county assessment, other than required 
state mandate funds pursuant to section 5685 that do not displace 
current county assessment expenditures, 
the county shall lower 
its county assessment limit in that year in an amount equal to 
the net new funds. 
For purposes of this SUbsection, "net new 
funds" means the amount of funds received by the county from the 
State in that fiscal year, with respect to services funded in 
whole or in part by the county assessment, less the product of 
the fOllowing: the amount of such funds received in the prior 
fiscal year multiplied by one plus the growth limitation factor 
described in subsection 3. 
If a county receives net new funds in 
any fiscal year for which its county assessment limit has not 
been adjusted as provided in this subsection, the county shall 
adjust its county assessment limit in the following year in an 
amount equal to the net new funds. 
Sec. F-2. 30-A MRS A §S721-A, sub-§4, as amended by PL 2005, c. 
621, §13, is further amended to read: 
4. 
Adjustment 
for 
new 
state 
funding. 
If 
the 
State 
provides net new funding to a municipality for existing services 
funded in whole or in part by the property tax levy, other than 
HOUSE AMENDMENT 
HOUSE 
AMENDMENT 'e" to COMMITTEE 
AMENDMENT 
"A" to H.P. 
1449, 
L. D. 2055 
required state mandate funds pursuant to section 5685 that do not 
displace 
current property 
tax 
expenditures, 
the municipality 
shall lower its property tax levy limit in that year in an amount 
equal to the net new funds. 
For purposes of this subsection, 
"net 
new 
funds" 
means 
the 
amount 
of 
funds 
received by 
the 
municipality from the State in that fiscal year, with respect to 
services funded in whole or in part by the property tax levy, 
less the product of the following: 
the amount of such funds 
received in the prior fiscal year multiplied by one plus the 
growth limitation factor described in subsection 3. 
"Net new 
funds" does not include changes in state funding for general 
assistance under Title 22, section 4311 or in state funding under 
the Urban-Rural Initiative Program under Title 23, section l803-B 
if those changes are the result of the operation of the formula 
for calculation of state funding under that section but does 
include changes in funding that are the result of a statutory 
change in the formula for calculation of state funding under that 
section. 
If a municipality receives net new funds in any fiscal 
year for which its property tax levy limit has not been adjusted 
as provided in this subsection, the municipality shall adjust its 
property tax levy limit in the following year in an amount equal 
to the net new funds. ' 
Further amend the amendment by 
any 
nonconsecutive 
Part 
letter 
or 
consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
relettering or renumbering 
section 
number 
to 
read 
This 
amendment corrects 
references in the formula for 
calculation of county and municipal spending growth limitations 
by specifying that adjustments for changes in state funding are 
calculated by multiplying the prior year's funding by one plus 
the growth limitation factor. 
SPONSORED BY: 
(Representative 
TOWN: 
Auburn 
HOUSE 
AMENDMENT