Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 1909
Committee Amendment CA_A_H1063 (House)
Amends: 30-A MRSA §5721-A

Clerk of 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "fI" to H.P. 1350, L.D. 1909, Bill, "An 
Act To Make Minor Technical Changes to Maine's Spending Growth 
Benchmarks" 
Amend the bill by striking out all of sections 4 and 5 and 
inserting in their place the following: 
'Sec. 4. 5MRSA§1535, as amended by PL 2005, c. 519, Pt. VV, 
§3, is further amended to read: 
§1535. 
General Fund transfers to stabilization fund 
Baseline General Fund revenue, as recommended by the Revenue 
Forecasting Geffiffiissiea 
Committee 
and authorized in accordance 
with chapter 15l-B, 
and other available budgeted General 
Fund 
resources that exceed the General Fund appropriation limitation 
established 
by 
section 
1534 
plus 
the 
additional 
cost 
for 
essential programs 
and services for kindergarten to grade 
education under Title 20-A, chapter 606-B over the fiscal year 
2004-05 aj?j?roj?riation for general j?urj?ose aid for local schools 
until the state share of that cost reaches 55% of the total state 
and local cost must be transferred to the stabilization fund. ' 
Further amend the bill by striking out all of section 10. 
Further amend the bill by striking out all of section 15 and 
inserting in its place the following: 
Page l-LR2905(2) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to H.P. 1350, L.D. 1909 
'Sec. 15. 30-A MRSA §5721-A, sub-§4, as amended by PL 2005, c. 
515, §l, 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 
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 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 
nonconsecutive 
Part 
consecutively. 
bill by 
letter 
relettering 
or 
section 
SUMMARY 
or renumbering 
number 
to 
any 
read 
This 
amendment 
amends 
section 4 
of the bill to include 
changes made to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section 1535 
by Public Law 2005, chapter 519. 
This amendment also removes section 5 of the bill because 
that section was rendered unnecessary by Public Law 2005, chapter 
519; 
removes section 10 of the bill, which amends the county 
spending limitations 
prOVlSlons; 
and 
replaces 
section 
to 
provide that municipal spending limitations do not need to be 
adjusted for changes in state reimbursement for urban-rural road 
assistance expenses if those 
changes 
are the result of 
the 
operation of the statutory formula for that program. 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT